In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawa nde explo r es the power a nd the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view fr om the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized fo r m but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, a nd profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist fo r Nonfiction.