This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about medical costs. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) Today Gawande answered readers’ ...

Boston-based Brigham and Women’s cancer surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, was critical of the American Health Care Act in an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel. “Trump has said his aim is better coverage than ...

The ever-prolific Atul Gawande chatted it up last night with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, promoting his latest book, “Being Mortal.” The two discussed end-of-life care – and how patients and ...

Despite our advances in medicine, a new book calls for a radical transformation in how we approach the end of life. In “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” the physician and ...

Brigham and Women’s surgeon and Harvard’s Ariadne Labs founder Dr. Atul Gawande will bring his public health prowess to a new role at the helm of an Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway ...

Three-quarters of the way through “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his ...

Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and writer for The New Yorker, said after conducting numerous interviews with people from his hometown, some of those residents ...

Dr. Atul Gawande will step out of health care’s limelight on Monday to put himself under its microscope. Taking the helm of the new health venture funded by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire ...

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Dr. Atul Gawande, the surgeon-writer-researcher chosen to lead a joint health venture by three prominent employers who hope to bring down health costs, says his biggest goal is to help professionals ...