Description: 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.

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Reviews: "Every subject . . . is probed and dissected . . . with such deftness and feeling and counterintuitive insight that the reader is left breathless." --Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point

" . . . smooth, engaging style and choice of unusual subjects . . ." --Booklist

"These exquisitely crafted essays, in which medical subjects segue into explorations of much larger themes, place Gawande among the best in the field." --Publishers Weekly

"Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies." --Adam Gopnik, author of From Paris to the Moon