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 is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.Details
Publish date | April 01, 2003 |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 288 |
ISBN | 9780312421700
0312421702 |