Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback, New edition)


This is an 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. There are accounts of 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.

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This is an 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. There are accounts of 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.

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Imprint

Profile Books Ltd

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

July 2003

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Dimensions

198 x 130mm (L x W)

Format

Paperback - B-format / B-format

Pages

288

Edition

New edition

ISBN-13

978-1-86197-498-3

Barcode

9781861974983

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LSN

1-86197-498-1



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