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"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
- Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
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| | Complications :
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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| | by Atul Gawande
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ZIN Product Number: 10285595
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 269 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0805063196
Release Date: Jan 4, 2003
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human." Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He shows what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. And in a richly detailed portrait of both the people and the science, Gawande also ponders the human factor that makes saving lives possible.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
brilliant!
-- A reviewer, July 18, 2002
JUST OK
-- CDR JOHN' D.S'.E.TRAVERS, CONCERN RE:COMPLICATIONS/SURG., September 7, 2002
Realistic depiction of medical life!
-- Tracie Lanae Carter, a book club president, July 18, 2002
Also Recommended: In-Law Drama and A Guide to the Scriptures
| |  | | | | Author's Note | 1 | | Introduction | 3 | | Pt. I | Fallibility | | | Education of a Knife | 11 | | The Computer and the Hernia Factory | 35 | | When Doctors Make Mistakes | 47 | | Nine Thousand Surgeons | 75 | | When Good Doctors Go Bad | 88 | | Pt. II | Mystery | | | Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth | 109 | | The Pain Perplex | 115 | | A Queasy Feeling | 130 | | Crimson Tide | 146 | | The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating | 162 | | Pt. III | Uncertainty | | | Final Cut | 187 | | The Dead Baby Mystery | 202 | | Whose Body Is It, Anyway? | 208 | | The Case of the Red Leg | 228 | | Notes on Sources | 253 | | Acknowledgments | 265 |
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