Cover art for Complications
Published
Profile Books, November 2007
ISBN
9781846681325
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
19.4cm × 12.8cm × 2.2cm

Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by

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This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.

There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

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