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Atul Gawande
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Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.

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Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. .. more

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 6d
My wife, Kathleen: “In the future, we will just be data. We will be just ones and zeroes. But I will be a one. Not a zero.”

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 11d
This is your must read this week.

Read this.

It is about leukemia and the powers and limits of science and the terrifying dangers of the turn against it. It is human and excoriating and beautiful. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 16d
We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.

Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 16d
The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 17d
I spoke with @BigThink about why even the most experienced professionals need a coach — including surgeons. It’s one of the most under-utilized ways people improve.
Video: youtu.be/tW7ClAexgHI?...
How to break the hidden limits of expertise | Atul Gawande for Big Think+
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