Re: [Phys-l] Hybrid mileage

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

That's the man. Atul Gawande. Son of Indian Immigrants.
45 years old.
New Yorker columnist, Political activist too by all accounts.
He has a medical degree. And a public health degree.
He works at Brigham and Women's at Boston, not Mass General....

There again, he does teach at Harvard Medical School.
Wrote a book on virtue-based ethics
( Some cardinal surgical virtues in his view:
diligence, doing right, and ingenuity)
McArthur Award winner.
Rhodes Scholar at Balliol.
Papers in NE J of Med

What a guy!

Brian W
Short Wiki Bio here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande

Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> Perhaps this is to what you refer:
>
> Written version:
>
> http://healthpolicyblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/06/04/the-new-yorker-highlights-mayo-clinic-in-health-reform-article/
>
> includes link to the article.
>
> bc subscriber to the New Yorker.
>
>
> On 2010, Jan 06, , at 17:48, Brian Whatcott wrote:
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>   
> > Marty's note triggered my memory of a recent radio talk by a Harvard 
> > medical school teacher who has done some work on  cost effectiveness 
> > comparisons in American Health care Systems.
> > His anecdote concerned an evaluation of why health care costs in one 
> > Texas town were among the highest in the Country. There was honest 
> > puzzlement expressed by the indigenous physicians there, as to his 
> > analysis of causes.
> >