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Item Details
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COMPLICATIONS
A SURGEON'S NOTES ON AN IMPERFECT SCIENCE |
| By: |
Atul Gawande |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847651240 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847651242 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
9 July, 2010 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. |
| Synopsis: |
The international bestseller from the author of Being MortalIn these gripping accounts of true cases, bestselling author Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealised form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made: operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.'Written as tautly as a thriller' Observer |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Profile Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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