Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

All Books By Atul Gawande

Being Mortal
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Being Mortal
  • By: Atul Gawande
  • Narrator: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: October 07, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (104 ratings)
  • NYT Best Sellers
(104 ratings)
#1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times,... Read more
Better
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Better
  • By: Atul Gawande
  • Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd
  • Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: April 03, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (28097 ratings)
(28097 ratings)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well... Read more
Complications
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Complications
  • By: Atul Gawande
  • Narrator: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: July 21, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (42372 ratings)
(42372 ratings)
**A new unabridged recording** A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to... Read more
Complications
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Complications
  • By: Atul Gawande
  • Narrator: William David Griffith
  • Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: March 01, 2003
  • Language: English
  • (42373 ratings)
(42373 ratings)
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one’s own... Read more
The Checklist Manifesto
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The Checklist Manifesto
  • By: Atul Gawande
  • Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd
  • Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: December 22, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (56 ratings)
(56 ratings)
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the... Read more

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