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Complications

Atul Gawande

2002251 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Penguin Books · 251 pages · ENGISBN 9780143028451
  • 2002Metropolitan Books · 269 pages · ENGISBN 9780805063196
  • 2003Metropolitan Books · 292 pagesISBN 9781429972109
  • 2003Picador · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780312421700
  • 2003Audio Renaissance · ENGISBN 9781559278584
  • 2003Profile Books Ltd · 288 pagesISBN 9781861974983
  • 2007Audio Renaissance · ENGISBN 9781427201515
  • 2003Goldmann · 320 pagesISBN 9783442152148

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is―uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

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