Money and Finance
- Atul Gawande And Charles Munger On Why More Health Care Isn't Better
Link to article: Atul Gawande And Charles Munger On Why More Health Care Isn't Better American health care is obsessed with more. But the industry is beginning to realize that more isn’t always what’s best for patients. Dr. Atul Gawande,...
- Interview With Atul Gawande - By Alex Howard
Found via Simoleon Sense. Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker...
- How I Learnt The Power Of Checklists – By John Kay
Found via Abnormal Returns. Mr Gawande discovered that the good checklist is short but not too short. If the list is long, none of the items on it are taken very seriously. You can easily persuade people to agree to things when you ask them to mechanically...
- Malcolm Gladwell Reviews Atul Gawande's Latest Book: The Checklist Manifesto
I can't wait to read this book! As Charlie Munger says: "Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary [worldly] wisdom and then you should go through a mental checklist in order to use it. There is no other procedure...
- Testing, Testing - By Atul Gawande
Thanks to Farnam Street for passing Dr. Gawande’s latest piece along. There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first...
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Dr. Atul Gawande on Health Care & the Age of Reform
Via Farnam Street.
Renowned surgeon, writer (Better, Complications, and The Checklist Manifesto), and medial thinker Dr. Atul Gawande interviews with WPUR's On Point. In this wide ranging interview, Dr. Gawande covers healthcare reform, measuring the quality of healthcare, the value of checklists, lowering the cost of healthcare, what healthcare can learn from agriculture.
- Atul Gawande And Charles Munger On Why More Health Care Isn't Better
Link to article: Atul Gawande And Charles Munger On Why More Health Care Isn't Better American health care is obsessed with more. But the industry is beginning to realize that more isn’t always what’s best for patients. Dr. Atul Gawande,...
- Interview With Atul Gawande - By Alex Howard
Found via Simoleon Sense. Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker...
- How I Learnt The Power Of Checklists – By John Kay
Found via Abnormal Returns. Mr Gawande discovered that the good checklist is short but not too short. If the list is long, none of the items on it are taken very seriously. You can easily persuade people to agree to things when you ask them to mechanically...
- Malcolm Gladwell Reviews Atul Gawande's Latest Book: The Checklist Manifesto
I can't wait to read this book! As Charlie Munger says: "Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary [worldly] wisdom and then you should go through a mental checklist in order to use it. There is no other procedure...
- Testing, Testing - By Atul Gawande
Thanks to Farnam Street for passing Dr. Gawande’s latest piece along. There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first...