Atul Gawande appears in the following:
Solving the 'Coronavirus Test Mess'
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
The New Yorker's Atul Gawande says the key to taming the pandemic means a new commitment to 'assurance testing.'
Preparing to Die: Dr. Atul Gawande on Medicine's Struggle with Mortality
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
How do you help a dying person? Boston surgeon Atul Gawande discusses some of the difficulties doctors—including himself—have helping patients with end-of-life care.
How Medicine Can Improve Life — and Death
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Medicine can improve our lives, but surgeon and writer Atul Gawande wants medical care to also improve the way we die.
Health Checklist
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, discusses his book and offers his take on how to improve our healthcare system.
The Checklist Manifesto
Monday, February 15, 2010
Atul Gawande, general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, explains how more training and advanced technologies don’t seem to prevent experts from making costly mistakes, but ...
How Checklists Can Save Your Life
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Can a checklist save a life? Dr. Atul Gawande thinks so. He talks with us about his new book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” and about how the simple act of check...
The Checklist Manifesto
Monday, January 04, 2010
Atul Gawande, general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, explains how more training and advanced technologies don’t seem to prevent experts from making costly mistakes, but ...
The Cost of Health Care: A Doctor's Diagnosis
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
When it comes to health care, do you get what you pay for? Dr. Atul Gawande wanted to examine costs -- and quality. In the latest issue of The New Yorker he compares McAllen, Texas, o...
Are we torturing U.S. prisoners?
Monday, March 23, 2009
The United States holds at least 25,000 prisoners in long-term solitary confinement prisons across the country. They're called "Supermax" prisons, where prisoners are confined without...
Getting Better
Friday, August 31, 2007
A new collection of essays from surgeon and New Yorker contributor Atul Gawande challenges doctors to improve the quality of health care by improving their personal interactions with patients.
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