Atul Gawande

Complications (eBook, ePUB)

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The international bestseller from the author of Being Mortal

In these gripping accounts of true cases, bestselling author Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealised form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing and profoundly human.

This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made: 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.

'Written as tautly as a thriller' Observer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847651242
• Artikelnr.: 38454505

Autorenporträt

Atul Gawande

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I don't know if Atul Gawande was born to be a surgeon - I very much suspect so - but he was certainly born to write.This wise and exciting account of life as a surgical resident ... perfectly captures the wonder and fearful responsibility that come with cutting people open in the hope of making them whole again. Bill Bryson