Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
By: Gawande, Atul
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TextPublisher: New York : Picador, 2002General Notes: "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.Description: x, 269 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0312421702 (pbk.) :; 9780312421700 (pbk.).Subject(s): Surgeons -- United States -- Biography | Surgery -- Anecdotes | Medical errorsDDC classification: 617.092 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 617 G248c 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003708542 |
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
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.
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