Full name: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Author: Atul Gawande Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Memoirs, Award winners, Health Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312421700 0312421702

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. Similar books: Better by Atul Gawande Brain Surgeon by Keith Black Direct Red by Gabriel Weston Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim The Blood of Strangers by Frank Huyler Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins The Intern Blues by Robert Marion On Call by Emily R. Transue Your Medical Mind by Jerome Groopman Do No Harm by Henry Marsh One Doctor by Brendan Reilly MD A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass Becoming a Doctor by Melvin Konner When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick Jr. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha Virus Hunter by C. J. Peters Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman