Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Gawande, Atul

ISBN 10: 0312421702 / ISBN 13: 9780312421700

Published by Metropolitan Books (edition First Edition), 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312421702
• ISBN 13: 9780312421700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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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.

Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Atul Gawande is the author of several bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.