Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
Author: Gawande, Atul Publisher: Profile Books, 2003.Language: EnglishDescription: 269 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 1861974981Type of document: BookBibliography/Index: Includes bibliographical references
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Europe Campus Main Collection |
R100 .G39 2003
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Includes bibliographical references
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Complications A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science Contents Author's Note Introduction 3 Part 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 Part 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 Part Ill--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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