num_pages: 270
description: This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
language: English
title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
titlecomplete: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
genres: Audiobook, Essays, Biography, Science, Health, Medicine, Medical, Nonfiction, Memoir, Health Care
ratings_count: 47775
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Picador