Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceA brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. |
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... central line . He had a badly infected wound and needed intravenous antibiotics , and no one could find veins in his arms for a peripheral IV . I had little hope of succeeding . But a resident does what he is 20 COMPLICATIONS.
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Contents
1 | |
The Computer and the Hernia Factory | 35 |
Nine Thousand Surgeons | 75 |
When Good Doctors Go Bad | 88 |
Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth | 109 |
A Queasy Feeling | 130 |
Crimson Tide | 146 |
The Man Who Couldnt Stop Eating | 162 |
Final Cut | 187 |
The Dead Baby Mystery | 202 |
The Case of the Red Leg | 228 |
Notes on Sources | 253 |