# Complications

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- Book: [Complications](https://www.bookquiver.com/atul-gawande/complications) ([Complications.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/atul-gawande/complications.md))
- Authors: [Atul Gawande](https://www.bookquiver.com/atul-gawande), [Robert Petkoff](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-petkoff)
- Publisher: Profile Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4668-132-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2008-03-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.