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Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. (in politics, philosophy, and economics) from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, pieces which have been collected in his books Complications and Better.
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Joni Miller 12/18/2007 03:34 PM Report
Atul Gawande is a genius, plain and simple, probably of the Oliver Sacks variety. His ideas deserve close attention. I had to listen to these excerpts four times in a row and I like to think I am an intelligent person. In his book Complications, which I couldn't put down, he shows himself to be visceral in his practice as well as his thinking. Therefore, I took special note when he brought up: medical advancements that have taken place since the end of WWII; end of life issues such as Alzheimer's; and his final comment that we should (paraphrase) get with the new program before it's forced on us. What's up with that?! Connect the dots in your own mind. I'm damn sure not voting for Hillary.