Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2002.Description: x, 269 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0312421702 (pbk.) :
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Contents:
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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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection RD 27.35 .G39 A3 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98623058

"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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