Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Atul Gawande

Published April 1st 2003 by Picador USA (first published 2002)

Category: Biography

Pages: 270 pages

ISBN: 9780312421700

Description:
In gripping 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.