“We drug people, put needles and tubes into them, manipulate their chemistry, biology, and physics, lay them unconscious and open their bodies up to the world,” he writes. Īs the son of two Indian immigrant doctors, Gawande was born into a medical-savvy household. That I’ve already loaded my iPod with the remaining three titles should be an indisputable thumbs-up verdict here. I’ve begun at the beginning, with this, his first, which was (no surprise) a 2002 National Book Award finalist in nonfiction. Īnd so, reader, I finally started to read the good doctor’s books. He’s also a surgeon and professor at the country’s top venues, plus a staff writer at the venerable New Yorker. His three previous titles have all been bestsellers, he’s a 1987 Rhodes Scholar, a 2006 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, and a TED favorite. Atul Gawande’s latest (and fourth) book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, has been on countless 2014 ‘best-of’ lists.
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