- Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On June 20, 2018, Dr. Gawande was named the CEO of a recently formed health-care venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase.
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- Medicine is so very good at fixing problems. Doctors always find room to say, 'Well let's try another treatment', without thinking what that might take away, the harm it could do. You know, in the fourth regimen of chemotherapy you're just getting the toxicity and none of the benefit in most instances. Often it's done out of an inability to have the kind of discussion and understanding of death that would recognize that the best possible day today, with what capabilities we have, is going to be far better than sacrificing yet another week for the sake of some possible future week.
- We've expended a lot of effort on assisted death and way too little on assisted living.
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