Health and medicine explained.

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• Why Money Won't Buy Fat In rich countries, the rich get rich and the poor get fat.
  Atul Gawande Dec. 25, 1998
  
• No Medicare Scare—Yet The system's real problem isn't the flight of a few HMOs.
  Atul Gawande Oct. 23, 1998
  
• Juicy Journals For us doctors, medical publications aren't just vital knowledge. They're gossip.
  Atul Gawande Sept. 25, 1998
  
• The Dead Baby Mystery Telling homicide from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome isn't as easy as you think.
  Atul Gawande Sept. 4, 1998
  
• The Buck Stops With the Doc Sometimes, blaming the system is fair. But in medicine, it can be a dangerous cop-out.
  Atul Gawande July 23, 1998
  
• Manning the Hospital Barricades Why do groups--even groups of doctors--instinctively hate each other?
  Atul Gawande June 26, 1998
  
• Organ Meat Letting people peddle their kidneys might save lives, but the ethical price is too high.
  Atul Gawande May 29, 1998
  
• Viagra Creep Quality-of-life drugs may threaten more than insurers.
  Atul Gawande May 15, 1998
  
• The Human Cost of Crippling Castro Health care is still pretty good in Cuba--unless you die waiting for embargoed supplies.
  Atul Gawande May 1, 1998
  
• 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 March 20, 1998
  
• 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 Feb. 27, 1998
  
• Partial Truths in the Partial-Birth-Abortion Debate Every abortion is gross, but the technique is not the issue.
  Atul Gawande Jan. 30, 1998