Dr. Atul Gawande is one of my heroes; he's arguably one of the most influential public-health thinkers around. Practicing surgeon. Med-school professor. Stan

Dr. Atul Gawande is one of my heroes; he's arguably one of the most influential public-health thinkers around. Practicing surgeon. Med-school professor. Stanford undergrad, Harvard Medical School. Rhodes Scholar. MacArthur Fellow. Frequent contributor to the New Yorker. Author of several books; I think I've read them all, and all of them were excellent. "Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) 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 also 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 also chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande (footnotes omitted)