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 ...
In this exclusive video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, chats with surgeon, author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, about his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to ...
Sticks and stones may break your bones — but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England ...
Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston. His 2009 book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” champions the use of checklists to prevent ...
The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why ...