Complications

Name: Complications
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9780312421700
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A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By Gawande

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Complications by Atul Gawande offers gripping true accounts from the frontline of surgery, revealing the power and limits of medicine through the eyes of a practising surgeon. The book explores complex and compelling cases, showing medicine not as an ideal science but as a human endeavour marked by uncertainty and risk. With stories of patients and doctors, Gawande uncovers why mistakes happen and how doctors cope with ethical dilemmas and fallibility, providing a nuanced and humane perspective on modern medical practice.
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Complications

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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is ideal for readers interested in medicine, science, and human stories behind healthcare. It suits those who appreciate thoughtful, well-written explorations of ethical and practical challenges in surgery and medicine, including students, professionals, and general readers curious about the realities and complexities of modern medicine.

This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.

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2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction

"No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing... Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies." — Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavour.

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Praised by The New York Times Book Review for its truthfulness and immediacy, Complications is described as soulful and absorbing by Adam Gopnik. Reviewers highlight Gawande's ability to blend medical insight with compelling storytelling, making complex subjects accessible and thrilling. Malcolm Gladwell calls the book a medical thriller, and Salon.com regards Gawande as arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer of his time.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780312421700

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 249g

Pages: 269

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Education & Reference Gawande Health & Wellness Non-Fiction

About the Author

Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.