Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

Author/creator	Gawande, Atul
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Picador, 2002.
Description	x, 269 pages ; 21 cm
Subject(s)	Surgeons--United States --Biography. Surgery--Anecdotes. Medical errors--Personal narratives. Surgery--Personal narratives.

Contents	pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.
General note	"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
ISBN	0312421702 (pbk.) :

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	RD27.35.G39 A3 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold