{"product_id":"complications-a-surgeons-notes-on-an-imperfect-science-9780312421700","title":"Complications","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplications \u003c\/i\u003eis a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtul Gawande\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four bestselling books: \u003ci\u003eComplications\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eBetter\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Checklist Manifesto;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616135680274,"sku":"9780312421700","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_468540f4-a32c-4ee4-bfa9-c1b1b7c6a75e.jpg?v=1732502143","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/complications-a-surgeons-notes-on-an-imperfect-science-9780312421700","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}