Complications - Paperback
by Atul Gawande
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metropolitan BooksISBN-13:9780312421700ISBN-10:312421702UPC:9780312421700Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Essays, SurgerySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC33PAH2JV
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.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metropolitan BooksISBN-13:9780312421700ISBN-10:312421702UPC:9780312421700Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Essays, SurgerySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC33PAH2JV
Atul Gawande is the author of four 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.
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