Category Archives: writers
helping haiti
Hearing about Haiti’s latest catastrophe, with homes and hospitals reduced to rubble, mountains of corpses decomposing in the 90-degree humidity, dwindling food and clean water supplies — who doesn’t feel compelled to hop on an airplane headed for Toussaint Louverture … Continue reading
Filed under do gooders, hard times, writers
a simple intervention
I was invited to participate in a public conversation last night with Atul Gawande, a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker on such things as the cost of health care, solitary confinement, and reducing errors in the ICU. What, … Continue reading
Filed under innovation, writers
portrait of a scientist
They say that doctoring calls for a balance of art and science. But is that balance possible? For me the right-brained stuff is mostly instinct, and I work much harder to stay on top of the science, which requires a … Continue reading
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