Atul Gawande

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Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965 in Brooklyn ) is an American physician, university professor and surgeon who is known for bestsellers about everyday medical practice.

Gawande's parents were both medical professionals and immigrants from India. He grew up with his sister in Athens, Ohio , where he graduated from high school in 1983. He studied biology and political science at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1987 and then studied philosophy, politics and economics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (Balliol College) with a master's degree in 1989. He then studied medicine at Harvard Medical School with an MD degree in 1995 and a Masters degree in Public Health in 1999 from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1995 to 2003 he completed his residency in surgery at Harvard.

He was already politically active during his studies and interrupted it to take part in Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign as a consultant on public health issues. After Clinton's election, he served in the Department of Health and Human Services and chaired one of three health committees in the Clinton administration. In 1993 he resumed his medical studies.

In 1998 he became a permanent medical journalist with The New Yorker . In a 2009 paper in The New Yorker, he examined the reasons why local hospital health care in the small town of McAllen is the most expensive in Texas, but the end results don't differ much from other Texas communities. According to Gawande, this was a symptom of profit maximization with a large number of unnecessary therapeutic and diagnostic measures (the clinic was excellently equipped). The essay drew attention to the politics of the Barack Obama administration . Charles Munger , a partner of Warren Buffett , spontaneously sent him a check for $ 20,000, which he donated.

In 2006 he became a MacArthur Fellow . In 2014 he gave the BBC's Reith Lectures on the Future of Medicine and received the Lewis Thomas Prize for Science Journalists.

He is a General and Endocrine Surgery Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He also led the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge project . He is the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs Healthcare Improvement and Chairman of the non-profit Lifebox to reduce unnecessary mortality from surgery worldwide.

His book Complications describes case studies from everyday life in medicine and surgery. In Better , he examines the desirable qualifications that he believes successful doctors should have. In The Checklist Manifesto he writes about the usefulness of checklists (not only in medicine, but also, for example, in the business world) and advocates their extensive use. In 2014 he published a book about the dying, their care and life-prolonging measures.

In 2012 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

In March 2013, Atul Gawande was named by Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon as CEO of their new joint venture, Haven. In doing so, they criticize the complexity, difficulty of understanding, inefficiency and costliness of the current US health system. Haven is said to make the health care of the 1.2 million employees at Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) "easier, better and cheaper". Patient care is to be largely supported by artificial intelligence and robots.

He is married to Kathleen Hobson and has three children. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts .

Fonts

  • Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, 2002.
    • German translation: The scissors in the stomach, Goldmann 2003, When mistakes cost life: Case stories from surgery, btb 2012.
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Profile Books 2007.
    • German translation: About life and death: for better medicine, btb 2010.
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Metropolitan Books 2009.
    • German translation: The Checklist Strategy, Munich: btb 2013.
  • Being mortal - medicine and what matters in the end, Macmillan 2015.
    • German translation: To be mortal, Frankfurt: S. Fischer 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Cost Conundrum, The New Yorker, June 1, 2009, online
  2. ↑ Lauren Hatch, New York Writer Gets $ 20,000 Check From Warren Buffett's Partner , Business Insider, March 2, 2010
  3. ↑ Member History: Atul Gawande. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Haven. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Tami Luhby CNN: Bezos, Buffett and Dimon name Their healthcare effort. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Angelica LaVito, Christina Farr, Hugh Son: Amazon's joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven. March 6, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jo Best: Amazon's next big thing? Prime, but for healthcare. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gawande, Atul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn