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'Complications' is a collection of real medical cases that illuminate the complexities of contemporary surgical practice. Through these anecdotes, Atul Gawande offers an incisive examination of how medicine operates under uncertainty, highlighting medical errors, ethical dilemmas, and the profound human impact of clinical decisions. His narrative blends clinical expertise with storytelling to reveal the science of treatment from the perspective of the surgeon’s scalpel.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Health & Medicine/Medical Science
Authors: Atul Gawande
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