Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
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TextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2002.Description: x, 269 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0312421702 (pbk.) :
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"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.
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