TY - BOOK AU - Atul Gawande TI - Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On An Imperfect Science SN - 9780312421700 U1 - 614 GAW N2 - This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a 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 ER -