Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
270 pages
|Published: 16 May 2013
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ISBN: 9780312421700
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 1 April 2003
Description
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a 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.
