| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 269 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- Pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg. |
| Subject |
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
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Surgeons. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Surgery -- Anecdotes.
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Surgery. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
0805063196 hardback |
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