Gawande, Atul.
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande. - New York : Picador, a Metropolitan Book/Henry Holt and Co., 2002. - x, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
"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).
Library Journal, April 2002 Publisher's Weekly, February 2002 Kirkus Starred, February 2002 New York Times, April 2002 Teacher Librarian, June 2006 Library Journal Publisher's Weekly Kirkus Starred
The author, nearing the end of eight years of training in general surgery, contemplates the nature of modern medicine, discussing the fallibility of doctors, the mysteries and unknowns of medicine and the struggle to know what to do about them, and the issue of uncertainty.
Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 1100L Lexile.
9780312421700 0312421702
Surgery--Anecdotes.
Surgeons--United States--Biography.
Surgery--Anecdotes.
Surgeons--United States--Biography.
RD27.35.G39 / A3 2002
617/.092
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande. - New York : Picador, a Metropolitan Book/Henry Holt and Co., 2002. - x, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
"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).
Library Journal, April 2002 Publisher's Weekly, February 2002 Kirkus Starred, February 2002 New York Times, April 2002 Teacher Librarian, June 2006 Library Journal Publisher's Weekly Kirkus Starred
The author, nearing the end of eight years of training in general surgery, contemplates the nature of modern medicine, discussing the fallibility of doctors, the mysteries and unknowns of medicine and the struggle to know what to do about them, and the issue of uncertainty.
Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 1100L Lexile.
9780312421700 0312421702
Surgery--Anecdotes.
Surgeons--United States--Biography.
Surgery--Anecdotes.
Surgeons--United States--Biography.
RD27.35.G39 / A3 2002
617/.092