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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Title
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
- Author
- Gawande, Atul.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 03-10381 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 269 p.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- Pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.
- Call Number
- JFD 03-10381
- ISBN
- 0805063196 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001055884
- OCLC
- 48383609
- Author
- Gawande, Atul.
- Title
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
- Imprint
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 03-10381