This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about medical costs. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) Today Gawande answered readers’ ...

Dr. Atul Gawande has described his new health care company as a “nonprofit” that will operate independently from the three massive corporations providing its funding — a firewall he said is crucial to ...

Brigham and Women’s surgeon and Harvard’s Ariadne Labs founder Dr. Atul Gawande will bring his public health prowess to a new role at the helm of an Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway ...

The ever-prolific Atul Gawande chatted it up last night with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, promoting his latest book, “Being Mortal.” The two discussed end-of-life care – and how patients and ...

HIMSS announced Thursday that Dr. Atul Gawande will be the opening keynote speaker at the HIMSS19 Global Conference in February. Gawande will discuss his "bold vision for a better world," during the ...

If Atul Gawande’s first week as CEO of a health care startup was anything like mine, I hope he is able to get away from it all and enjoy a completely relaxing weekend. He will have earned it. After ...

In his commencement address at Pasadena-based California Institute of Technology, Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon and public health researcher, told graduates that scientific thinking is under siege.

Despite our advances in medicine, a new book calls for a radical transformation in how we approach the end of life. In “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” the physician and ...

Three-quarters of the way through “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his ...

Dr. Atul Gawande will step out of health care’s limelight on Monday to put himself under its microscope. Taking the helm of the new health venture funded by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire ...

Singer Johnny Paycheck once wrote that “there’s no easy way to die.” Paycheck was a bummed-out country singer lamenting a fizzled relationship, but his tossed-off line is full of existential import.