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Complications by Atul Gawande · Booklabria

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Complications

BiographyAutobiography

Complications

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First published: 2002
Editions: 19 in 4 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Biography
Autobiography
Anecdotes
Surgery
Surgeons
Surgeons, biography
Set in: United States
Characters: Atul Gawande

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19 in 4 languages

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English11 Chinese2 German1 Spanish1

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