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

    • Title:Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
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    • Author/Creator:Gawande, Atul.
    • Published/Created:New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Surgeons--United States--Biography.
      Surgery--Anecdotes.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:x, 269 p. 22 cm.
    • Notes:"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--Title page verso.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
    • ISBN:0805063196 (hbk.)
    • Contents:Pt. I. Fallibility
      Education of a Knife
      Computer and the Hernia Factory
      When Doctors Make Mistakes
      Nine Thousand Surgeons
      When Good Doctors Go Bad
      Pt. II. Mystery
      Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth
      Pain Perplex
      Queasy Feeling
      Crimson Tide
      Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating
      Pt. III. Uncertainty
      Final Cut
      Dead Baby Mystery
      Whose Body Is It, Anyway?
      Case of the Red Leg.
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