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Complications: A surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gurugram: Penguin Random House India Private Limited , 2009Description: 251ISBN:
  • 9780143423218
  • 9780143456810 (Set)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 617.092 GAW
Summary: tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.
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Book Book Alliance School of Liberal Arts 617.092 GAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Set of 4 Volumes Rs. 1199.00 (Bill Details: IN481, Dt: 02/08/2023) LA02594
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tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.

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