A conversation with Atul Gawande

with Atul Gawande
in Science & Health, Current Affairs
on Thursday, April 2, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School

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    1. fjgajewski  04/03/2009 05:03 PM Report

      I'm a touch surprised that not a word was said about the 25- and 30-hour hospital shifts residents are made to endure. How, pray, does practicing medicine in a nonsentient state benefit either physician or (mon dieu) patient?

    2. vineeta  04/03/2009 11:11 AM Report

      Charlie Rose show is one of my fav interview shows. As usual conversation with today’s guest Dr. Atul Gawande was great and insightful. Although Dr. Gawande was very candid in sharing his thoughts, I felt many times during the conversation an important opportunity was not fully utilized to address the issues in the US health care system. I, a physician, practiced medicine in most challenging situations within the public health care system and in private practice in India for over 16 years before I moved to the US. I still stay in-touch with my medical side ? when I travel to India by working in the operation room with my colleagues.

      In the US, I have taken a journey of someone without the health insurance to acquiring a fairly good one( of course only way is to get a good on is through the employment – let’s not even go into the challenges people face when their health care is tied with the employment). Both suck- one more than other. The health care system in the US sucks- period! I reduced the displacement of my own big toe after an injury – not that I wanted to practice my orthopedic skills (which I can not boast of having) on myself or because I missed my practice, I had no option in absence of health insurance.

      It is frustrating for me as a physician,a health rights activist and a human rights lawyer. Even though this model is not working for the average person in one of the richest (despite the financial mess) countries in the world, it is being pushed in the Global South. The health care system is far from perfect in countries like India but pushing the US model on top it is like adding fuel to the fire.

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