About the Book: Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon
Atul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a sciencethat is
complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic truestories explore how
mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and whathappens when medicine comes up
against the inexplicable: an architectwith incapacitating back pain but no
physical cause; a young woman withnausea that wont go away; a TV newscaster
whose blushing is so severethat she cannot do her job.
About the Author: Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications,a finalist
for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.comas one of the