Atul Gawande
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Atul Gawande is a prominent surgeon and public health advocate who has significantly contributed to discussions on healthcare policy and ethics. This interview reveals his commitment to safeguarding health systems and addressing the complexities of medical practice in a rapidly changing world.
“Well, in some ways, I think I've been interested in that from the very beginning. So complications was written out of my early New Yorker articles where I was a trainee in surgery. And I was very interested in what does it mean to be good at what we do as a doctor when I'm Still learning, I'm practicing on human beings.”
“Well, so I've called it that we've been fantastic at breakthrough innovation and we've had no real understanding of follow-through innovation.”
“Realize we have teams of people, and this has also got to be the way we improve outcomes in healthcare and lower the costs as we start pushing down the components of things that really don't need somebody with 50 years of experience that you have the team members who are who have learned to handle the different parts of the care and then…”
“Not coincidentally turning 50, not coincidentally having a dad who was diagnosed with a brain tumor, not coincidentally having more than a decade of having to talk to people about these kinds of situations and not feeling like I was doing very well.”
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