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4+ YearsPublisher | Penguin Books India |
ISBN 13 | 9780143423218 |
ISBN 10 | 143423215 |
Book Subtitle | Notes From The Life Of A Young Surgeon |
Book Description | Atul gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a tv newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job |
About the Author | Atul Gawande is the author of three 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. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and been named one of the world's hundred most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy and TIME. In his work as a public health researcher, he is Director of Ariadne Labs a joint center for health system innovation. And he is also co-founder and chairman of Lifebox, a global not-for-profit implementing systems and technologies to reduce surgical deaths globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts. |
Language | English |
Format | Paperback |
Author | Atul Gawande |
Language | English |
Publication Date | 41940 |
Number of Pages | 272 |
Complications: Notes From The Life Of A Young Surgeon Paperback English by Atul Gawande - 41940