All articles related to "Atul Atmaram Gawande":

Examining post-ICU care

After surviving a period in a hospital intensive care unit (ICU), patients often face a range of ongoing health issues, such as pain, physical disability, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. An article in the January-February 2019 issue of…

The promise and peril of digital health care

The digitization of health care holds great promise, but converting large health systems across the U.S. to digital platforms poses numerous challenges, especially for doctors who use the systems daily. In the November 12, 2018 issue of the…

Gawande discusses death, imperfection, health systems

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…

Doctors often underestimate the addictiveness of opioids

Physicians often underestimate the addictiveness of opioids when writing prescriptions for patients, Atul Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of Ariadne Labs, said at…

Want to get better at your job? A coach can help.

Coaching isn’t just good for athletes—it can also help professionals from doctors to lawyers to scientists to musicians get better at what they do, according to Atul Gawande. Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management…