WHO Checklist Work
- WHO Safe Surgery Program
- A Checklist for Checklists, written by Atul Gawande, the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health Dissemination Team, and Dan Boorman of Boeing, 1/20/10
- Gawande discusses the power of checklists with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 1/7/10
- Safe Surgery Checklist highlighted on NBC's ER, 3/12/09
- "Human As Hero," a BMJ Editorial Championing Medical Checklists, 1/22/09
- Hospital Administrators Debate the Surgical Checklist in an Online Blog, 1/15/09
- The Washington Post Reports on Checklist Publication, 1/15/09
- New York Times Reports on Checklist Publication, 1/14/09
- The Boston Globe Reports on Checklist Publication, 1/14/09
- The Globe and Mail Reports on Checklist Publication, 1/14/09
- NEJM Publishes Results of WHO Checklist Pilot Study Online, 1/14/09
- WHO Issues a Checklist to Make Operations Safer, New York Times, 6/25/08
- A Surgical Revolution, The Independent, UK, 6/25/08
Health Reform
- "Watching the Health-Care Vote," a New Yorker blog on the passage of the historic health reform bill, 3/22/10
- Audio of Atul's speech at the Winter Meeting of the National Governors' Association, 2/20/10
- NEJM Perspective Roundtable: Atul Gawande Moderates a Discussion on the Cost of Health Care, 9/23/09
- "The Road Ahead," a New Yorker blog on Obama's recent speech, 9/10/09
- "10 Steps to Better Health Care," an NYT Op-Ed by Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Mark McClellan, 8/12/09
- A Health Affairs blog on the July 21 "How Do They Do That? " conference co-sponsored by IHI, the Dartmouth Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health, and the Brookings Institution, 7/28/09
- Gawande's summary remarks from the "How Do They Do That? Low-Cost, High Quality Health Care in America" conference, 7/21/09
- Atul Gawande's Commencement Address, University of Chicago, 6/12/09
- A Conversation with Charlie Rose, 4/2/09
- NPR's On Point, Hillary and Health Care, 9/18/07
- Atul Gawande Answers Questions About Health Care Reform, 1/19/09
- ABC News, Fixing Healthcare?: Clinton Calls for Universal Healthcare, 9/17/07
New Yorker
- "The Cost Conundrum Persists," A New Yorker News Desk Blog by Atul, 2/18/10
- "The Road Ahead," a New Yorker blog on Obama's recent speech, 9/10/09
- "Return to McAllen: a Father-Son Interview," inspired by "the Cost Conundrum," 7/26/09
- Gawande responds to critics in "The Cost Conundrum Redux," 6/23/09
- NPR's Fresh Air, Spend More, Get Less? The Health Care "Conundrum," 6/17/09
- The New York Times, "Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight," 6/8/09
- NPR's On Point, Costly Care in a Texas Town, 6/3/09
- A podcast with Atul Gawande on the Cost Conundrum, 6/1/09
- A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards, the New Yorker Festival, 10/4/08
- Atul Gawande Answers Questions About Health Care Reform, 1/19/09
- A Conversation with transplant surgeon Jean- Michel Dubernard, the New Yorker Festival, 10/4/08
- The patient who cured his facial pain with a mirror, 9/9/08
- "The Itch," A song inspired by Atul Gawande's recent New Yorker article
- Gawande Answers Questions About ‘The Itch’ , 7/4/08
- NPR's All Things Considered: The Mystery and Power of the Itch, 6/24/08
- NPR's All Things Considered, Doctor Saved Michigan $100 Million, 12/9/07
- U.S. combat fatality rate lowest ever, Washington Post, 12/9/04
- Interview on the Leonard Lopate Show on the Bell Curve, 11/30/04
Fun Stuff
- "The Velluvial Matrix," Stanford Medical School Commencement Speech, 6/12/2010
- "The Checklist Manifesto" on EXTRA! 6/11/10
- Harvard Magazine profiles Atul Gawande, "The Unlikely Writer," 9/1/09
- Listening in on the OR, Weekend America, 3/8/08
- A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, Barnes and Noble NYC, 2/1/08
- Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R., New York Times, 4/03/07
- Q&A with the Library Journal, 3/15/07
- Interview with Charlie Rose, 1/18/07
- The four-letter review, the Boston Phoenix, 3/19/04
- Lunch with the Lancet, 1/11/03
- Interview with Barnes and Noble, fall 2002
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