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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Hardcover - 2002

by Atul Gawande

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A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, "Complications" is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon").

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  • Title Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
  • Author Atul Gawande
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Bargain
  • Pages 269
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Metropolitan Books, New York
  • Date April 2002
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 78852
  • ISBN 9780805063196 / 0805063196
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Surgery, Surgeons - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001055884
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2002, Page 1075
  • Booksense '76 May/Jun 2002, 05/01/2002, Page 1
  • Business Week, 05/27/2002, Page 24
  • Discover, 01/01/2003, Page 78
  • Entertainment Weekly, 04/26/2002, Page 140
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2002, Page 158
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2002, Page 130
  • New York Review of Books, 07/18/2002, Page 10
  • New York Times, 04/07/2002, Page 10
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/25/2002, Page 50

About the author

Atul Gawande is the author of four 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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