Atul Gawande‘s book Being Mortal is on the New York Times best seller list. I did not want to read it but a friend who is an M.D. gave it to me and I thought it had an important theme. It is about the ...

Books by physicians tend to be either advice for the layperson, memoirs of poignant or funny encounters with patients, or discourses on disease as the interface between life and death. Atul Gawande's ...

How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan, 209 pp., $24. Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's "The ...

Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated writer, surgeon and public health expert Atul Gawande to lead global health development at the U.S. Agency for ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Indian American comedian Aziz Ansari is running into headwinds. His directorial debut “Being Mortal” has been shut down after filming began after complaints about his costar Bill ...

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 has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. He served in the Biden Administration as the assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Have you washed your hands today? Atul Gawande has. In fact, depending on the day, he may have scrubbed his mitts a few hundred times. That’s because the best-selling author and acclaimed surgeon ...