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AUTHOR |
Gawande, Atul. |
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TITLE |
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande. |
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IMPRINT |
New York : Picador, 2002. |
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DESCRIPTION |
x, 269 p. ; 22 cm. |
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NOTE |
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso. |
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NOTE |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. |
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SUMMARY |
"Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. 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. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He shows what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. And in a richly detailed. |
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SUBJECT |
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography. |
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SUBJECT |
Surgery -- Anecdotes. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Biology. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Chemistry. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Integrated Science. |
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OTHER TITLE |
a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science. |
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OTHER TITLE |
Chinese title: 一位外科醫師的修煉. |
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ISBN |
0805063196 (hbk.). |
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