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Atul Gawande



Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is an American surgeon, public health researcher and advisor, and bestselling author. He writes extensively on medicine, morality, mortality, and public health issues.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

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Atul Gawande: How to Talk End-of-Life Care with a Dying Patient

Practicing surgeon Atul Gawande discusses the four important parts of talking with terminally ill patients about their end-of-life care. Rather than pressing patients to make hard decisions, Gawande emphasizes the importance of asking questions about their hopes and fears.

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No Risky Chances: The Conversation that Matters Most.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in anatomy class in my first term, our textbooks contained almost nothing about aging or frailty or dying.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | Talks at Google

Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should do.

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Atul Gawande: The Difference Between Coaching and Teaching

On Wednesday, October 24, HMS and HSPH Professor Atul Gawande applied his observations from the fields of sports, music, schools, and medicine, to a discussion of how different professions produce top-level performers.

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Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life?

Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It started with a cough and a pain in her back. Then a chest X-ray showed that her left lung had collapsed, and her chest was filled with fluid.

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Atul Gawande on Death | The New Yorker Festival | The New Yorker

Atul Gawande talks about death at the 2010 New Yorker Festival.

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Want to Get Great at Something? Get a Coach | Atul Gawande

How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon’s precision.

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Atul Gawande on Failure and Rescue | The New Yorker Festival | The New Yorker

At The New Yorker Festival in 2012, Atul Gawande asks audience members to think about how proficient hospitals should be at rescuing patients.

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How a Doctor Brought Life Back to a Nursing Home Where People Were Dying

In his new book ‘Being Mortal,’ surgeon and author Atul Gawande tells the miraculous story of a menagerie that gave sick people a reason to live.

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