This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpels edge. n nIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpels edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. n nComplications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.n