Gawande, Atul. <br/><br/>
Complications :  a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / 
Atul Gawande. 
 - New York :  Picador,  2002. 
 - x, 269 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0312421702 (pbk.) :  $13.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Surgeons--United States--Biography.<br/>Surgery--Anecdotes.<br/>Medical errors--Personal narratives.<br/>Surgery--Personal narratives.