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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 human.
Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018–2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceBy Atul GawandePicador USA
Copyright ©2002 Atul GawandeAll right reserved.
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When you are in the operating room for the first time and see the surgeon press his scalpel to someone's body, you either shudder in horror or gape in awe. I gaped. It wasn't the blood and guts that enthralled me. It was the idea that a mere person would ever have the confidence to wield that scalpel. I wondered how the surgeon knew that all the steps would go as planned, that bleeding would be controlled and organs would not be injured. He didn't, but still he cut.
Later, I was allowed to make an incision myself. The surgeon drew a six-inch dotted line across the patient's abdomen and then, to my surprise, had the nurse hand me the knife. It was, I remember, still warm. I put the blade to the skin and cut. The experience was odd and addictive, mixing exhilaration, anxiety, a righteous faith that operating was somehow beneficial, and the slightly nauseating discovery that it took more force than I realized. The moment made me want to be a surgeon -- someone with the assurance to proceed as if cutting were routine.
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Condición: Como nuevo. : En este libro, el cirujano Atul Gawande explora con valentía y brillantez los entresijos de la medicina moderna. A través de relatos reales y conmovedores, Gawande revela tanto el poder como las limitaciones de la ciencia médica, ofreciendo una visión honesta y sin concesiones desde el filo del bisturí. El autor nos muestra una ciencia imperfecta, llena de incertidumbre y complejidad, pero también profundamente humana, invitándonos a reflexionar sobre la naturaleza de la vida, la muerte y el papel de los médicos en la sociedad. EAN: 9780312421700 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Autor: Atul Gawande Editorial: Metropolitan Books Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa blanda. Nº de ref. del artículo: Happ-2024-03-05-955b98e2
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