{"product_id":"complications-a-surgeons-notes-on-an-imperfect-science-paperback","title":"Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAtul Gawande\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.\" --\u003ci\u003eAdam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. At once tough-minded and humane, \u003ci\u003eComplications \u003c\/i\u003eis a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtul Gawande\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four bestselling books: \u003ci\u003eComplications\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eBetter\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Checklist Manifesto;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52913122476256,"sku":"9780312421700","price":21.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/KzENA8XFr-9780312421700.webp?v=1781216536","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/complications-a-surgeons-notes-on-an-imperfect-science-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}