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...

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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 isۥuncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.



  • Author: Gawande, Atul.
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pages: 269
  • Publication Date: 2003-04-01
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Paperback
  • MSRP: 17.37
  • ISBN13: 9780312421700
  • ISBN: 0312421702
  • Other ISBN: 9781429972109
  • Other ISBN Binding: print
  • Language: en
  • Store Location: Biography
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