TY - BOOK AU - Gawande, Atul. TI - Complications : : a notes from the life of a young surgeon SN - 9780143423218 U1 - 617.092 GAW PY - 2014/// CY - USA : PB - Penguin Books, KW - Surgeons KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Surgery KW - Anecdotes N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) N2 - 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 ER -