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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.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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    Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/03/2008
    ISBN13: 9781846681325, 978-1846681325
    ISBN10: 1846681324

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , Biography

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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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