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.
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Publisher : Penguin Books India (28 October 2014)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0143423215
ISBN-13 : 978-0143423218
Item Weight : 160 g
Dimensions : 15.2 x 13.8 x 1.65 cm
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