Complications a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
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Picador,
2002.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Gawande, Atul. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Complications : |b a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / |c Atul Gawande. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Picador, |c 2002. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 269 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Surgeons |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Surgery |v Anecdotes. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Medical Errors |v Personal Narratives. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Surgery |v Personal narratives. | |
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