description: In vivid accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
language: English
title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
titlecomplete: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
genres: Medicine, Biography, Health Care, Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, Health, Essays, Medical, Audiobook
ratings_count: 47787
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: MacMillan Audio