Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Gawande, Atul; Griffith, William David

• ISBN13: 9781427201515
• ISBN10: 142720151X
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: CD
• Copyright: 2007-03-20
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Summary

In vivid 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 Biography

Atul Gawande, a 2006 MacArthur fellow, is a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and a frequent contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine. Gawande lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye.... Diagnosis: riveting.”—Time magazine
 
Praise for Complications:
“Gawande is arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around.”—Salon.com
 
“Remarkable...A new and different voice, bringing to modern high-tech medicine the same clinical watchfulness that writers such as Williams and Sacks have brought to bear on the lives and emotions of often fragile patients.” —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New York Review of Books