{"product_id":"complications-by-gawande-9780312421700","title":"Complications","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing... \u003cem\u003eComplications\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.\" — \u003cem\u003eAdam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eComplications\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642811039980,"sku":"9780312421700","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780312421700-complications.jpg?v=1779159050","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/complications-by-gawande-9780312421700","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}