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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... Read Full Overview

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

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... Read Full Overview

Gawande's prose, much like the scapel he wields, is precise, daring but never reckless. But it is after he exposes what lies beneath that we see the full measure of his gift. Much like reading George Orwell, the reader emerges entertained, transformed and enlightened Abraham... Read Full Overview

Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people s bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are... Read Full Overview