Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Author(s): Atul Gawande
This is a stunninglty well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life anf deathe -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. First published 2002.
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