TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gawande,Atul
TI  - Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science 
SN  - 0312421702 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Medical errors
KW  - Personal narratives
N1  - "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
ER  -