Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science.

Item Number: 119405

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.

First edition of American surgeon Atul Gawande’s collection of gripping surgical memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Candell. Jacket photograph by Graham Gordon Ramsay.

Here, Atul Gawande offers and unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. "Complications is a book about medicine that reads like a thriller" (Malcom Gladwell).