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This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Complications, Atul Gawande
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Complications
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Atul Gawande
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0312421702
- ISBN13
- 9780312421700
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, Health, Medicine
- Original title
- Complications
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.