<DIV>In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV><I>Complications </I>is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.</DIV><BR></DIV>