>Atul Gawande is a brilliant person with interesting ideas on how to make healthcare more humane and robust
No, he’s not.
No offense to him, but he’s a -popularizer-. He takes various bits the HC quality improvement folks have been talking about / doing for years and writes (very articulate, engaging) articles that make it accessible to the wider community, including the wider medical community that normally isn’t in on those discussions. He also has a habit of relating it in a fairly shallow/one dimensional way, compared to the real deb-
Malcolm Gladwell. He’s Malcolm Gladwell, but for healthcare.
No, he’s not.
No offense to him, but he’s a -popularizer-. He takes various bits the HC quality improvement folks have been talking about / doing for years and writes (very articulate, engaging) articles that make it accessible to the wider community, including the wider medical community that normally isn’t in on those discussions. He also has a habit of relating it in a fairly shallow/one dimensional way, compared to the real deb-
Malcolm Gladwell. He’s Malcolm Gladwell, but for healthcare.