Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Rilegato

Gawande, Atul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0805063196 ISBN 13: 9780805063196

Casa editrice: Metropolitan Books, 2002

Riassunto

Drawing from compelling true accounts of patients and doctors, a provocative examination of the power and limits of modern medicine reveals a world where science is uncertain, information is limited, and deadly mistakes occur. 60,000 first printing.

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L'autore

Atul Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto and Better. Complications was a National Book Award finalist. He is also a MacArthur Fellow, a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Book by Gawande Atul

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Metropolitan Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805063196
• ISBN 13: 9780805063196
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 269