Surgeon and author Atul Gawande recently talked about mortality, his discomfort with imperfection, and his recent decision to become CEO of a new organization designing efficient health care systems for employees of Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway in a wide-ranging conversation with Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton.
The September 6, 2018 discussion at Sanders Theatre was part of the annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality at the Divinity School’s convocation.
Gawande is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; director of Ariadne Labs; and a staff writer for the New Yorker.
Read a Harvard Gazette article: Gawande confronts the inevitable