Atul Gawande
Author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
About the Author
Atul Gawande is a surgical resident in Boston and staff writer on medicine and science for The New Yorker. A former Rhodes scholar, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts. (Publisher Fact Sheets) Atul Gawande is a surgeon show more at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He has written several books including Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science and two National Magazine Awards. He will be appearing at the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival in New Zealand. He won the prize for Adult Non-fiction in the Indies Choice Book Awards 2015 with Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Gawande, Atul
- Birthdate
- 1965-11-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Athens, Ohio, USA
Newton, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Stanford University
Harvard Medical School (M.D.)
Harvard School of Public Health (M.P.H.)
Oxford University (Balliol College, P.P.E.) - Occupations
- surgeon
professor
Federal bureaucrat
political advisor
writer
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- Harvard University
- Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (2006)
Rhodes Scholar
Newsweek Magazine's 20 Most Influential South Asians - Agent
- Tina Bennett
- Short biography
- Atul Gawande was born in Brooklyn. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Stanford University. As a Rhodes Scholar, he spent a year at Oxford University. After two years at Harvard Medical School he left to become Bill Clinton's health care lieutenant during the 1992 campaign, and became a senior adviser in the Department of Health and Human Services after President Clinton's inauguration. He returned to medical school and earned his M.D in 1994, as well as an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also a staff writer on medicine and science for the New Yorker.
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Tempted to give this 5 stars. Very well written, clear & important.
An excellent look at the end of life in its many forms, focused on old age but including terminal illness at all ages. Hospice and palliative care are so important but they are often put off in hopes of finding a cure for what may not have one. I think this would have been better with some mention of the disparities between care offered to those in different socioeconomic classes. This was still very good though, especially with the focus on accepting our own mortality.
Great history of the checklist as well as importance of and how to best utilize checklists. Don't look for a checklist to follow to implement them though, this is purely informational with a few guidelines laid out by an aircraft checklist specialist that one can use as guidance. Still, the stories were fascinating and the research gathered by Gawande very pertinent, thorough, and entertaining.
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"Coming form a background wherein the elderly are not placed in a nursing home once they reach ancient years but are taken in by younger relatives and cared for until they pass away it means that family unity is important to my familial clan and to my natal family-my parents-as well. My siblings see it differently though I won't get into that here in this review. I also see caring for my parents not as my duty, but as my obligation to pay it forward and to bless them in their aging years and give them an excellent quality of life just as they gave me a great start to life!"
"I will always treasure this book for reminding me that living with my parents until they die and caring for them out of love and joy is better than moving out and being miserable to pay someone else's mortgage and let them live debt free and have a better quality of life whilst your parents suffer in their lives. From the example the author gave about his relatives it inspired me to stay the course and continue serving my parents faithfully in their home and do my part to make their lives easier as they age by being as supportive of their independence and wishes as much as possible and for them to respect mine as well. But for us to also collaborate together as a team to come. up with a game plan for their enjoyment and happiness without spending any money. For me that is spending time reading with my mother. For my father and I ti is deep conversations that give me insights and a window into his heart and peace in knowing that he is going to be okay even though he may never be reconciled with certain family members for various reasons. I see it as my duty and my charge to bolster my parents and to champion my siblings separately and promote unity and harmony for all my living relatives that I am in contact with so that being mortal in this life of living will turn into a beautiful eternity of a lasting legacy of joy, harmony, wisdom, and peace at the end of our days. That is what this book taught me."… (more)