Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
Gawande, Atul2003
Book
In these gripping accounts of true cases, bestselling author Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealised form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors explore how deadly mistakes occur, what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
Main title:
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
Author:
Gawande, Atul, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2003.©2002.
Collation:
x, 269 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: U.S.A. : Metropolitan Books, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264)
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781846681325 (paperback)
Dewey class:
617.092617
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
464023
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| East Melbourne Library | -Health | HEALTH 617 GAWA | Available |