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Oct 11, 2014 · Atul Gawande: 'If I haven't succeeded in making you itchy, disgusted or cry I haven't done my job' Sukhdev Sandhu. The bestselling surgeon-author talks about the limits of medicine, our...
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One Wednesday last April, Atul Gawande was in his office at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, trying to make some progress on a New Yorker article about disparities in healthcare spending. He kept getting paged when other physicians thought their patients might need surgery.
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Oct 26, 2017 · “What does a good day look like?” That question — when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people — has transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is on the frontiers of human agency and meaning in light of what modern medicine makes possible.
Jun 12, 2021 · “In your formative years, you don’t know — you can’t know — what will ultimately matter to you; what will grab you by the shoulders and awaken you and stay with you,” he said. “So you have to be...
- On the global health mission. “Global health really means that we ensure that everyone everywhere gets the care they need,” Gawande said. But the problem, he said, is that currently, there are large gaps in delivery capacity—in parts of the US, and certainly in the low- and middle-income countries.
- Systems really matter. Recognizing the importance of health systems, Gawande said, is one of the big lessons of the pandemic. “The places where we have made investments in systems have been the places that did the best,” in terms of pandemic response, Gawande noted, underscoring the fact that our traditional measures of pandemic preparedness—lab capacity, the availability of certain tools—did not correspond with the places that did the best in fighting the pandemic.
- Mental health is not a luxury. Mental health disorders are some of the most common afflictions for people around the world—affecting 25% to 20% of people around the world.
- Converting the skeptics. To rebuild the public’s trust in science, Gawande said we need “…to understand, as scientists, where the line is between the politics and public health.”
Feb 13, 2017 · We are struck by certain parallels between medicine and education in a recent essay by Atul Gawande. He critiques the medical field’s high valuation of the heroic physician or surgeon who swoops in with an emergency procedure and saves a patient’s life.
Oct 25, 2012 · Atul Gawande: Excellence Is Recognizing Details, Failures. The HMS professor speaks on the difference between being competent and great. In the professional world, what separates greatness from mere competence? Why is a cystic fibrosis treatment center in Minnesota miles ahead of a similar program in Cincinnati?
