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  1. Sep 26, 2011 · This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made.

  2. Apr 1, 2003 · Surgeon, MacArthur fellow, and New Yorker staff writer Gawande follows his best-sellers Complications (2002) and Better (2007) with an electrifying manifesto that pairs the most advanced medical science with the humblest of tools: the checklist.

    • Atul Gawande
    • $11.19
    • Picador
  3. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays written by the American surgeon Atul Gawande. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador. [1]

    • Atul Gawande
    • 2002
  4. Mar 1, 2003 · Gawande, a practising surgeon, tries to get to the heart of medical practice, to understand how doctors make decisions and why things go wrong. Starting with a section entitled “Fallibility,” he examines how doctors are trained and how mistakes are made, and he makes a convincing case for why mistakes are not hallmarks of a bad doctor.

    • Andy Conway Morris
    • 2003
  5. May 16, 2013 · Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Atul Gawande. 4.27. 49,783 ratings3,104 reviews. This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.

    • (49.8K)
    • Paperback
  6. Sep 21, 2002 · C omplications is a collection of essays about doubt and uncertainty in medicine. As well as being a surgeon, Atul Gawande is a staff writer on medicine and science at The New Yorker, and some of the essays in this volume have appeared before.

  7. 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-uncertainn, perplexing, and profoundly human.

    • Atul Gawande