Atul Gawande What Matters in the End
\u201cWhat does a good day look like?\u201d That question \u2014 when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people \u2014 has transformed Atul Gawande\u2019s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is on the frontiers of human agency and meaning in light of what modern medicine makes possible. For the millions of people who have read his book \u201cBeing Mortal,\u201d he\u2019s also opened new conversations about the ancient human question of death and what it might have to do with life.\nAtul Gawande practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston. He\u2019s also Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was recently named the CEO of Haven, a healthcare venture spearheaded by the leaders of Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. He\u2019s been a staff writer for \u201cThe New Yorker\u201d magazine since 1998 and is the author of four books, including \u201cThe Checklist Manifesto\u201d and \u201cBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.\u201d\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.