Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On an Imperfect Science, Paperback Book, By: Gawande

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.