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Atul Gawande is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of four books. View Full List of Atul Gawande's Articles. Being Mortal (2014) The Checklist Manifesto (2009) Better (2007) Complications (2002) Atul Gawande practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. More about Dr. Gawande. Photo Credit: Grace Galvin. Atul Gawande is Executive Director of Ariadne Labs.
In Gawande’s June 26, 2017, article in The New Yorker, “How the Senate’s health-care bill threatens the nation’s health,” the noted surgeon and Harvard educator emphasized the importance.
One Wednesday last April, Atul Gawande was in his office at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, trying to make some progress on a New Yorker article about disparities in healthcare spending. He kept getting paged when other physicians thought their patients might need surgery. By late afternoon, there had been a few false alarms: he visited patients and ruled against operating.
On June 1, 2009 the town of McAllen, Texas rose to brief prominence on the American political stage. With the highest (bar Miami) per-beneficiary costs in the entire US Medicare program, it was featured in an essay in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande, then seized upon by President Obama: “This is what we have to fix.” Behind the headlines were decades of documentation of clinical practice.
Gawande has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 1998. His June 2009 New Yorker essay comparing healthcare in two Texas towns with dramatically different costs showed how more expensive care could be worse care, reflecting practices performed more for business reasons than medical needs. The article changed public understanding.
Download file to see previous pages In 2010, the magazine employed sixteen fact checkers after sharp criticism concerning their fact checking process arose. In the following year, Adam Klasfeld in his article “Gawker Brought into New Yorker Fracas”, on the Courthouse News Service reported that the New Yorker had been sued by Peter Paul Biro for defamation on a July 2010 article.
On June 1, 2009 the town of mcAllen, Texas, rose to brief prominence on the American political stage. With the highest (bar miami) per-beneficiary costs in the entire us medicare program, it was featured in an essay in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande, then seized upon by President Obama: “This is what we have to fix.” Behind the headlines were decades of documentation of clinical practice.