Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
Record details
- ISBN: 0312421702 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780312421700 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: x, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg. |
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Subject: | Surgeons > United States > Biography. Surgery > Anecdotes. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RD 27.35 .G39 A3 2002 | 30538808 | General Collection | Available | - |