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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science, Atul Gawande

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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
Note
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--title page verso
Contents
  • Fallibility: Education of a knife
  • Computer and the hernia factory
  • When doctors make mistakes
  • Nine thousand surgeons
  • When good doctors go bad
  • Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth
  • Pain perplex
  • Queasy feeling
  • Crimson tide
  • Man who couldn't stop eating
  • Uncertainty: Final cut
  • Dead baby mystery
  • Whose body is it anyway?
  • Case of the red leg
Isbn
9781429972109
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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
Title
Complications
Title remainder
a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
Statement of responsibility
Atul Gawande
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
TEFOD
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Gawande, Atul
Dewey number
617/.092
Index
index present
LC call number
RD27.35.G39
LC item number
A3 2002eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2002 G-120
  • WZ 100
NLM item number
G286 2002
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Gawande, Atul
  • Surgeons
  • Surgery
  • Chirurg
  • General Surgery
  • Medical Errors
Label
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science, Atul Gawande
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--title page verso
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Fallibility: Education of a knife -- Computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- Pain perplex -- Queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- Man who couldn't stop eating -- Uncertainty: Final cut -- Dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- Case of the red leg
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781429972109
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
32370D7A-8CF8-406F-9B5D-1C8B1354FA3D
System control number
  • 2006075
  • (OCoLC)861786255
  • (OCoLC)ocn861786255
  • 2006075
Label
Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science, Atul Gawande
Link
Publication
Note
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--title page verso
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Fallibility: Education of a knife -- Computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- Pain perplex -- Queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- Man who couldn't stop eating -- Uncertainty: Final cut -- Dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- Case of the red leg
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781429972109
Isbn Type
(electronic bk.)
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
32370D7A-8CF8-406F-9B5D-1C8B1354FA3D
System control number
  • 2006075
  • (OCoLC)861786255
  • (OCoLC)ocn861786255
  • 2006075

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