Complications

The International Bestseller From The Author Of Being Mortal In These Gripping Accounts Of True Cases, Bestselling Author Atul Gawande Performs Exploratory Surgery On Medicine Itself, Laying Bare A Science Not In Its Idealised Form, But As It Actually Is - Complicated, Perplexing And Profoundly Human. 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: 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. 'written As Tautly As A Thriller' Observer