Complications

4.0 avg 13882 votes

About this book

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.

4.0 ★★★★☆ average of 4 sources · 13882 votes
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4.0/5 · 13882 readers · 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read Complications?

About ≈ 5 h 20 m — 288 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mComplications~5 h 20 m

How many pages is Complications?

288 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Complications288

What genre is Complications?

It sits on the Biography & Memoir shelves.

Is Complications in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote Complications?

Atul Gawande.

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