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Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande, a surgical resident in Boston, is a staff writer on medicine for The New Yorker and author of the new book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.

Articles By Atul Gawande

  • Juicy Journals

    For us doctors, medical publications aren't just vital knowledge. They're gossip.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, Sept. 25, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • The Dead Baby Mystery

    Telling homicide from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome isn't as easy as you think.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, Sept. 4, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • The Buck Stops With the Doc

    Sometimes, blaming the system is fair. But in medicine, it can be a dangerous cop-out.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Thursday, July 23, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Manning the Hospital Barricades

    Why do groups--even groups of doctors--instinctively hate each other?

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, June 26, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Organ Meat

    Letting people peddle their kidneys might save lives, but the ethical price is too high.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, May 29, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Viagra Creep

    Quality-of-life drugs may threaten more than insurers.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, May 15, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • The Human Cost of Crippling Castro

    Health care is still pretty good in Cuba--unless you die waiting for embargoed supplies.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, May 1, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • Dissecting the Day's News

    Judith Shulevitz, Katha Pollitt, Andrew Sullivan, Arianna S. Huffington, Harry Shearer, Malcolm Gladwell, Wendy Kaminer, David Brooks, Susan Estrich, Nell Minow, David Edelstein, Ruth Conniff, David Frum, Lucianne Goldberg, Erik Tarloff, Margo Howard, Alex Beam, Herbert Stein, Nadine Strossen, Alex Kozinski, Susan Estrich, Stuart Taylor Jr., Daniel Akst, Lisa DePaulo, Alan Brinkley, Sarah Lyall, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Stephen Graham, Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever, Christopher Caldwell, Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom, Julie Lasky, Maud Lavin, Sally Quinn, Eric Tarloff, Jeffrey Goldberg, Susan Orlean, E.J. Dionne, Amity Shlaes, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Cullen Murphy, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Michael Hirschorn, Mim Udovitch, Peter Pringle, Gideon Rose, Charles Paul Freund, Kim Masters, Sarah Kerr, Edward Rothstein, Atul Gawande, Marjorie Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz, Paul Krugman, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Willis, Mary Kaldor, Clive Crook, Anne Applebaum, James Gibney, Steven Brill, Margaret Carlson, Cathy Young, Neal Dolan, Katha Pollitt, Sam Tanenhaus, David Carr, Jill Stewart, Robert Christgau, Danyel Smith, Lisa Zeidner, John Allen Paulos, Christopher Benfey, Elaine Showalter, Christopher Caldwell, Daphne Merkin, and Jodie T. Allen | THE BREAKFAST TABLE | Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:06 AM

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  • E.R. and the Triple Hex

    When a full moon and a lunar eclipse collide with Friday the 13th, do more accidents really happen?

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, March 20, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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  • One for My Baby, but 0.08 for the Road

    Why the liquor lobby's arguments against cutting blood-alcohol limits are all wet.

    Atul Gawande | MEDICAL EXAMINER | Friday, Feb. 27, 1998, at 3:30 AM

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