Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande on the promise of digitization to make medical care easier and more efficient, and whether screens may be coming between doctors and patients.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

Some innovations spread quickly. Atul Gawande asks, How do you share the ones that don’t?

Atul Gawande explores the difference between standard medical care and hospice for terminal patients.

What a Texas town can teach us about health care.

Atul Gawande asks, If prolonged isolation is so objectively horrifying, how did we end up with a prison system that subjects so many people to it?

How should Obama reform health care?

Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?

Atul Gawande writes about the practice of measuring doctors and hospitals against each other, and examines the approaches of different programs that treat cystic fibrosis.