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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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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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The Trouble with US Healthcare

While US life expectancy continues to drop, healthcare policy remains one of the country's most divisive social issues. How can the United States rebuild a culture of health?

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Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and...

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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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Is health care a right for the American people?

Dr. Atul Gawande, a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the best-selling book "Being Mortal," now out in paperback, discusses his new piece on health care in The New Yorker, out tomorrow.

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how.

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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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Big Think Interview With Atul Gawande

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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

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.

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