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Complications : a notes from the life of a young surgeon / Atul Gawande

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: USA : Penguin Books, 2014.Description: xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780143423218
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 617.092 GAW
Summary: tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.
Item type: Non-Fiction
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251).

tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.

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