There’s crisis management, and then there’s crisis hunting. It’s time to stop the causes of crises instead of managing the ...

Dr. Atul Gawande is a physician and former head of Global Health at USAID, and recently visited Kenya to see those consequences firsthand. He joined Hari Sreenivasan to describe what he saw.

In a 2015 piece for this magazine, Atul Gawande wrote that the medical system too often performs tests, “unnecessarily, to reveal problems that aren’t quite problems to then be fixed ...

Complications, published by surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande in 2002, examines the uncertainty that plagues medical practitioners – including how much input patients should have in their care, as well ...

We live in complex times, most certainly if we are talking about health care. Dr. Atul Gawande, a well-known American surgeon and writer (several books, plus regular articles for some time in The New ...

Excerpted from Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, published on Tuesday by Macmillan.

Gawande, who practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote the New York Times best-selling books "Complications," "Better," and "The Checklist Manifesto ...