USAID was built to make survival feel ordinary. It existed so that childbirth would not be a gamble, hunger would not quietly ...

This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about medical costs. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) Today Gawande answered readers’ ...

Dr. Atul Gawande has described his new health care company as a “nonprofit” that will operate independently from the three massive corporations providing its funding — a firewall he said is crucial to ...

The ever-prolific Atul Gawande chatted it up last night with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, promoting his latest book, “Being Mortal.” The two discussed end-of-life care – and how patients and ...

Brigham and Women’s surgeon and Harvard’s Ariadne Labs founder Dr. Atul Gawande will bring his public health prowess to a new role at the helm of an Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway ...

President Biden will nominate noted surgeon and writer Atul Gawande for a global health position at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the White House said Tuesday. Gawande is a surgeon at ...

Dr. Atul Gawande will step out of health care’s limelight on Monday to put himself under its microscope. Taking the helm of the new health venture funded by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire ...

When news broke that Dr. Atul Gawande had been named CEO of the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Chase healthcare partnership, industry insiders were quick to raise doubts about his credentials. Some pointed ...

Three-quarters of the way through “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his ...

This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about end-of-life care. Today, Gawande answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of their discussion follows. ATUL GAWANDE: Welcome!