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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2002.Description: x, 269 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0312421702 (pbk.) :
  • 9780312421700 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B RD 27.35 G284c 2002
Contents:
pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) B RD 27.35 G284c 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000030503

"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.

pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.

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