Atul Gawande is an American

United States

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 physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital is the largest hospital of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts. It is directly adjacent to Harvard Medical School of which it is the second largest teaching affiliate with 793 beds...

 in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard School of Public Health

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 and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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. He is known as an expert on reducing error, improving safety, and increasing efficiency in surgery and has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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 and Slate

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.