by Atul Gawande · Metropolitan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312421700
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«Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science» is Atul Gawande's medical essay, in hardback (288 pages, in English).
Surgeon Atul Gawande recounts real cases and episodes from his training to show how medicine works outside the books: an uncertain practice, with errors and limit decisions, and an inevitable human component. It is a direct look at the operating room and the relationship between doctors, patients, and healthcare systems.
It is Gawande's first essay book and a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. The author is a surgeon in Boston, a contributor to The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School.
A book for readers interested in the real practice of surgery, medical dilemmas, and narrative nonfiction about health.
Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
