Description
| Product ID: | 9781846681325 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Complications |
| Subtitle: | A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science |
| Authors: | Author: Atul Gawande |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Surgery, Surgery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-03-27 |