Tag: Atul Gawande
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The double life of Truelian Lee
Concentrating in chemistry and English, Truelian Lee blended art with scientific problem-solving to bring chemistry to wider audiences.
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Gawande confronts the inevitable
Death, imperfection, and rock ’n’ roll were all part of surgeon-author Atul Gawande’s conversation with Dean David Hempton at HDS convocation.
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Vexing health problems can be solved, Gawande believes
Tackling complex issues such as opioid addiction, gun violence, and uneven access to medical care seems daunting, but surgeon and author Atul Gawande says history shows that over time, the nation can solve its public health challenges.
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Checklists are boring, but death is worse
Systems aren’t sexy, but they save lives, says Harvard Medical School Professor and author Atul Gawande during HUBweek events in Boston.
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Preoccupied with life
Harvard-affiliated surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores big questions around end-of-life care in “Being Mortal.”
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$12.5M to support innovation in education at HSPH
A major effort under way at Harvard School of Public Health to redesign its educational strategy has received significant new support of $12.5 million from the Charina Endowment Fund and Richard L. (M.B.A.’59) and Ronay Menschel.
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A year of change, month by month
2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.
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Coaching tips from Gawande
“The biggest factor in determining how much students learn isn’t class size or standardized testing, but the quality of their teachers,” said Atul Gawande in a Harvard Graduate School of Education talk on ways teaching can be improved through coaching.
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Garber, Gawande elected into APS
Marjorie Garber and Atul Gawande have been elected members of the American Philosophical Society.
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The battle for medicine’s soul
Author and surgeon Atul Gawande says effective medicine requires high-quality care and solid research. But it also requires a willingness to adapt.
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HSPH receives $14.1M grant
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has been awarded a $14.1 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of an innovative checklist-based childbirth safety program in reducing deaths and improving outcomes of mothers and infants in 120 hospitals in India.
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Medical Liability Costs Make Up 2.4% of U.S. Health Spending
Medical malpractice and guarding against suits cost the U.S. about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of the total health-care bill, according to Harvard University’s Atul Gawande and co-authors.
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Doctor examines torture
Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.
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Top surgeon Atul Gawande urges doctors to use ‘The Checklist’
But surgeon Atul Gawande, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says medicine today is so complex that even the sharpest doctors can no longer keep everything they need to know in their heads.
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Atul Gawande’s ‘Checklist’ For Surgery Success
Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker when he’s not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a man who came into an emergency room with a stab wound…
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Uninsured trauma mortality higher
CHICAGO – Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, from car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new Harvard University study.
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Surgical safety checklist drops deaths and complications by more than one-third
A group of hospitals in eight cities around the globe has successfully demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths…
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Ninety percent of U.S. wounded survive
For an article in the Dec. 9, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Atul Gawande, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham…
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Study identifies risk factors for retained objects after surgery
A study found that errors involving leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients are more likely to happen during emergency procedures, or in operations where there is a sudden change…