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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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Curiosity and What Equality Really Means

Insisting that people are equally worthy of respect is an especially challenging idea today. In medicine, you see people who are troublesome in every way: the complainer, the person with the unfriendly tone, the unwitting bigot, the guy who, as they say, makes “poor life choices.”

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH: When Treating Patients, ‘Our Core Goal Is to Enable Their Goals’

When treating patients with serious illnesses or at the end of life, the goal of clinicians should to be help draw out and then enact patients’ goals related to their well-being, satisfaction and affordability of treatment, Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, said during the opening ceremony of ASCO Annual...

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Controlling the Pandemic Is the First Step Toward Rescuing a Failed System

Joe Biden has committed to building an infrastructure that would support public health and equitable medical care—not only during this pandemic but during the next one.

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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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Why Americans Are Dying from Despair

The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.

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Failure and Rescue

So you will take risks, and you will have failures. But it’s what happens afterward that is defining. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all.

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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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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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