TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gawande,Atul
TI  - Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science 
SN  - 9780312421700
AV  - RD27.35.G39 A3 2002
U1  - 617/.092 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador, a Metropolitan Book/Henry Holt and Co.
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - sears
N1  - "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; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult; 1100L; Lexile
N2  - 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
ER  -