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      As I have been reading Atul Gawande’s  new book Being Mortal, I am fascinated by the fact that it has taken this surgeon so long to discover the realities […]

 Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emmanuel – brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm – doesn’t want to live past 75. He’s against physician assisted suicide but, as a physician, he believes we should […]

Let Them Eat Cheesecake By Suzanne Gordon The other day, at the suggestion of Boston surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande, my husband and I made a lunchtime visit […]

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Boston surgeon Atul Gawande has become one of the most acclaimed mainstream media critics of American health care.  An elegant writer with first-hand hospital experience, he has pointed out, in [...]