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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
Publication details: New York : Picador, 2003, c2002.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: x, 269 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780312421700 (pbk.) :
- 0312421702 (pbk.) :
- RD27.35.G39 A3 2003
Contents:
Fallibility: Education of a knife -- Computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- Pain perplex -- Queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- Man who couldn't stop eating -- Uncertainty: Final cut -- Dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- Case of the red leg.
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Fallibility: Education of a knife -- Computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- Pain perplex -- Queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- Man who couldn't stop eating -- Uncertainty: Final cut -- Dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- Case of the red leg.
Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
"A Metropolitan book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264).
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