Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
By: Gawande, Atul.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 269 p. 22 cm.ISBN: 0312421702 (pbk.); 0805063196 (hbk.); 9780312421700 (pbk.).Subject(s): Surgeons -- United States -- Biography | Surgery -- Anecdotes | General Surgery -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 617/.092 | B| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Pt. I. Fallibility. Education of a Knife. The Computer and the Hernia Factory. When Doctors Make Mistakes. Nine Thousand Surgeons. When Good Doctors Go Bad -- Pt. II. Mystery. Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth. The Pain Perplex. A Queasy Feeling. Crimson Tide. The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating -- Pt. III. Uncertainty. Final Cut. The Dead Baby Mystery. Whose Body Is It, Anyway? The Case of the Red Leg.
"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 portrait of both the people and the science, Gawande also ponders the human factor that makes saving lives possible."--BOOK JACKET.