Modern doctors are arguably the most hyper-educated professionals in the world, requiring eight years of higher education, followed by three to 10 years of residency and subspecialty training. And yet ...
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, associate professor at Harvard Medical School. His latest book ...
The best chapter in Atul Gawande's short, splendid book is the last one. He calls it "The Save," and with zero melodrama, the surgeon/author lays bare a case in which he nearly killed a patient, and ...
Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...
Dr. Atul Gawande has only been a practicing surgeon for six years, and he is still just an assistant professor at Harvard, but his game-changing New Yorker essay about the gobsmacking cost of ...
How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan, 209 pp., $24. Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's "The ...