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Gawande, Atul

 
9781846681325: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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ISBN 10: 1846681324 ISBN 13: 9781846681325
Editorial: Profile Books Ltd, 2008

Sinopsis

This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

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Acerca del autor

Atul Gawande is the author of three previous bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. His current book, Being Mortal, was a New York Times Bestseller. 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 2014, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. In his work in public health, he is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organisation making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

De la contraportada

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 necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

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Editorial
Profile Books Ltd
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1846681324
ISBN 13 
9781846681325
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
286
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780312421700: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0312421702 ISBN 13:  9780312421700
Editorial: Metropolitan Books, 2003
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