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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

This engaging collection of essays, written by Gawande, who is a former Rhodes scholar, a surgeon and a staff writer for The New Yorker, explores the world of modern medicine, taking readers behind the scenes of one of America's biggest industries. The author's personal accounts of risky surgical procedures—including treatment of morbid obesity—the newest medical innovations and the dangers of misdiagnosis deliver the challenges of a physician's career to readers with wonderful drama and detail. In Gawande's hands, the arcane world of medicine is finally made accessible. By turns confessional, comic and frightening, this collection was a 2002 National Book Award finalist and a bestseller in hardcover.