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 ...

World Health Organization estimates show that emergency health services reached more than 80 million people in 2024 but more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The healthcare venture that JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway announced in January finally has a CEO. On Wednesday the trio said they'd selected Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, writer, 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 ...

Rethinking the way we die.

President Biden will nominate noted surgeon and writer Atul Gawande for a global health position at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the White House said Tuesday. Gawande is a surgeon at ...