Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine,...
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Gawande, Atul

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

$46.57

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

$46.57
Author: Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780312421700


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 04/01/2003 pg. 25
New York Times 04/13/2003 pg. 28
Business Week 06/30/2003 pg. 22
Booklist 01/01/2010 pg. 22

About the Author
Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

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