Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2003 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86197-498-3 (ISBN)

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This is an 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. 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.

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. 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.

Atul Gawande is a staff writer on The New Yorker; was an adviser to President Clinton on American health policies; teaches surgery at Harvard Medical School; and uses his knife and scalpel in Boston hospitals. He has lectured in the UK and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He is married with three children.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.7.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	197 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
ISBN-10	1-86197-498-1 / 1861974981
ISBN-13	978-1-86197-498-3 / 9781861974983
Zustand	Neuware