| 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. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection |
| LCCN | 2001055884 |
| ISBN | 0805063196 : |
