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Published by Metropolitan Books, 2003
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- Title
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- Author
- Gawande, Atul
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312421702
- ISBN 13
- 9780312421700
Drawing from compelling true accounts of patients and doctors, a provocative examination of the power and limits of modern medicine reveals a world where science is uncertain, information is limited, and deadly mistakes occur. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Atul Gawande is the author of several 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.
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