Atul Gawande

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Name: Atul Gawande

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Health Care Needs a New Kind of Hero

An Interview with Atul Gawande by Gardiner MorseText SizeIn his latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, surgeon and writer Atul Gawande describes how asking some simple questions before surgery starts—such as “Did we give the patient her antibiotic?” and ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Harvard Business Review]

Entities: Atul Gawande, Health Care, Antibiotic, Surgeon

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Forensic role of bacteria?

Patients who take a proton-pump inhibitor with medicine to prevent blood clots are less likely to be hospitalized for bleeding ulcersHeart patients who took a stomach acid-suppressing proton-pump inhibitor along with clopidogrel—a drug that prevents blood ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Healthcare Purchasing News]

Entities: Cancer, Atul Gawande, Diabetes, Skin Cancer

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Chesley B Sullenberger III

Checklist Manifesto Has Relevance For Real Estate

Many real estate agents, brokers, and managers could profit from reading the book, "Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books, 209 pages). Gawande, a surgeon and already a best-selling author, addresses a problem that is common throughout ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Realty Times]

Entities: REAL ESTATE, Atul Gawande, Chesley B Sullenberger III

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

How Innovation Can Tame Chaotic Care

HBR's 'Ten Innovations That Will Transform Medicine' hit all the big ones, but I'm not so sure that the last three high-tech items in the list are going to make a major difference for many patients in the next few years — though I'd be shocked if they ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Harvard Business Review]

Entities: Invention, Partners HealthCare System Inc, Chaos, Health Care

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Mitt Romney

Romneycare And Obamacare

David Frum reviews Romney's new book. On health care: [Romney] adamantly opposes [the public option]. Yet in many other respects, there is common ground. Like Obama, Romney worries about the malign incentives of fee-for-service medicine. Like ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan]

Entities: Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Health Care, Atul Gawande, David Frum

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Worth Reading #6: The Similarities Between Romneycare and Obamacare (March 15, 2010)

David Frum: Romneycare Sure Looks Like Obamacare : I have to say I got a big chuckle out of Romney’s healthcare chapter. Two years ago, I published a book on conservative reform that urged conservatives to pay more attention to the social ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ...]

Entities: Obamacare, Barack Obama, Obesity, Atul Gawande, David Frum

First Reported Mar 13 2010 - Updated Mar 13 2010 - 1 Documents

How the blocks of our health system crumbled to dust

The catalogue of failures at Tallaght Hospital are management as much as medical errors, but the entire health service can learn a lot from the stringent standards of the aviation industry, writes Dr MUIRIS HOUSTON , Medical CorrespondentACCORDING TO ... [Published Mar 13 2010 by Irish Times]

Entities: Tony Holohan, Atul Gawande, Surgeon, Incompetence

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

Pizza Menus and Irrational Doctors.

A few days ago, Dan Ariely of Duke University, was on NPR to discuss his research on the way doctors make decisions, which mirrors the troubling ways consumers make decisions. If a pizza menu starts with the pie with everything, then descends into ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by TAPPED]

Entities: Dan Ariely, Atul Gawande, Paul Waldman

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 3 Documents

Did Charlie Munger Stumble Upon a New Model for Journalism?

When Warren Buffett's right-hand man, Charlie Munger, read Atul Gawande's amazing piece about the cost of health care in The New Yorker this summer, he decided to do something to show his appreciation, the Oracle told Squawk Box today: "My ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by Daily Intel]

Entities: Charlie Munger, Atul Gawande, Warren E Buffett, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jessica Pressler

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 25 2010 - 2 Documents

U.S. health-care system to get much sicker unless its paradoxes are resolved

President Barack Obama's health- reform package faces a life-or-death momentEmailPlease enter a valid e-mail addressPlease enter a comma delimited list of valid e-mail addressesOther ways of sharing:Recommend |See also:KONRAD YAKABUSKIFor some people, ... [Published Feb 25 2010 by Keep Media]

Entities: Medicaid, Atul Gawande, United States

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

Introductions Are Much More than Icebreakers

Post to FacebookShare on LinkedInRelated Productsby Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf, Thomas H. Davenport, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John P. Kotter, Theodore Levitt, Michael E. Porter, ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Harvard Business]

Entities: Atul Gawande, Robert S. Kaplan, Clayton M. Christensen, Benjamin Zander, Peter Drucker

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 22 2010 - 2 Documents

Atul Gawande: 'Lists have saved patients and saved me'

Magazine issue 2748. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.For similar stories, visit the Interviews and The Human Brain Topic GuidesYou've written a book called The Checklist Manifesto; why do we need checklists?On the one hand they are memory aids. If you ... [Published Feb 22 2010 by New Scientist]

Entities: Atul Gawande, Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (Massachusetts, United States)

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