Ideas for Tomorrow | Dr. Atul Gawande, Practicing Surgeon, Accomplished Writer, Teacher and Speaker 

I feel very proud of our Indian doing great globally.

Treating symptoms not causes. We will never progress, just reshuffle the deck.

The American healthcare industry has restructured care to insure each little component from a $15 charge for a 9-volt battery to a medical specialist's charges gets it's bite out of the American patient's bill. So one goes from 2 people caring for a patient for a procedure to 19 people now invovled. Failure is orchestrated here and deliberate when you get charged $137,000 for a hip replacement when it cost you $14,000 in Belgium, including the hospital and round trip ticket.

tackle the fda...to regulate saturated fat and sugar....cigaretes alcohol ....you will cure all