Complications a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books
[2002]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46290266*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fallibility: Education of a knife
- Computer and the hernia factory
- When doctors make mistakes
- Nine thousand surgeons
- When good doctors go bad
- Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth
- Pain perplex
- Queasy feeling
- Crimson tide
- Man who couldn't stop eating
- Uncertainty: Final cut
- Dead baby mystery
- Whose body is it anyway?
- Case of the red leg
