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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (1st Edition) by Atul Gawande Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-8050-6319-6 / 0805063196 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6319-6 / 9780805063196 A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itsel |