Atul Gawande
Born: November 05, 1965 – Brooklyn, New York, United States
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health leader whose work explores medicine, systems improvement, aging, and end-of-life care. He is the author of Complications, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal, a National Book Award finalist, and has influenced clinical practice and public debates on healthcare quality.
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Community Voices
"No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande"
— Adam Gopnik
"Atul Gawande is a rare and wonderful storyteller who portrays his profession with bravery and humanity"
— Ellen Goodman
"Atul Gawande is not only adding to the small shelf of books by doctors that every layman should read"
— Michael Lewis
"The writings of Atul Gawande convey the quiet assurance and tone of the doctor acting as both observer and participant"
— Sherwin Nuland
"Every subject Atul Gawande touches is probed and dissected and turned inside out with such deftness and feeling...the reader is left breathless"
— Malcolm Gladwell
"Being Mortal is an essential and insightful book for our times, as one would expect from Atul Gawande, one of our finest physician writers"
— Oliver Sacks
"Atul Gawande is a Harvard-trained surgeon and a former White House official, but he writes like a human being—and a born writer"
— Michael Kinsley
"Atul Gawande's insightful book illuminates the challenging choices members of the profession face every day"
— Los Angeles Times
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