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Complications a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is 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.

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  • "Complications : notes from the life of a young surgeon"

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  • "A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is 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."
  • "A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is 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."@en
  • "本書以低調但犀利的筆法觸及每一個外科醫師內心最痛處,勇敢面對每一個醫師都可能的噩夢併發症,醫療糾紛,名利的誘惑,更多時候是自己面對疾病的無能為力.這種低調而悲天憫人的寫法,使醫學與醫師得以脫離不完美的宿命,得到昇華."
  • "A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is ? complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is 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. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction."@en
  • ""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. Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He is also Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health."--[Résumé de l'éditeur]."
  • "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."@en
  • ""A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine"--Front flap of book jacket."@en
  • "In this work, Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made."@en
  • "Ben shu yi di diao dan xi li de bi fa chu ji mei yi ge wai ke yi shi nei xin zui tong chu,yong gan mian dui mei yi ge yi shi du ke neng de e meng bing fa zheng . yi liao jiu fen . ming li de you huo,geng duo shi hou shi zi ji mian dui ji bing de wu neng wei li . zhe zhong di diao er bei tian min ren de xie fa,shi yi xue yu yi shi de yi tuo li bu wan mei de su ming , de dao sheng hua ."

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  • "Literatura i medicina"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Biografia"
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  • "Yư̄a mō̜ ? : khwām sapsō̜n khō̜ng phāwa sǣksō̜n = Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
  • "一位外科醫師的修煉 = Complications, a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
  • "Complications a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"@en
  • "Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science"@en
  • "Yi wei wai ke yi shi de xiu lian = Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
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  • "Complicaciones : confesiones de un cirujano acerca de una ciencia imperfecta"
  • "Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
  • "Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"@en
  • "Complicações : dilemas de um cirurgião diante de uma ciência imperfeita"
  • "เหยื่อหมอ? : ความซับซ้อนของภาวะแทรกซ้อน"
  • "Yi wei wai ke yi shi de xiu lian"
  • "一位外科醫師的修煉"
  • "Complications a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science"@en
  • "一位外科医师的修炼"
  • "Yi wei wai ke yi shi de xiu lian = Complications, a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
  • "Complications / A Surgeon's notes on an imperfect sc ience"@en
  • "一位外科醫師的修煉 = Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science"
  • "Yư̄a mō̜ ? : khwām sapsō̜n khō̜ng phāwa sǣksō̜n"
  • "Complications : a surgeon's notes on imperfect science"@en

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