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<title><![CDATA[Atul Gawande - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17424.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Atul Gawande]]></description><category domain="17424">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trumpcare vs. Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trumpcare-vs-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pitchforks are changing hands. In 2009, it was Democratic members of Congress supporting health-care reform who were set upon by outraged constituents. When they passed the Affordable Care Act anyway, it cost their party control of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Epidemic of Unnecessary Medical Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was lunchtime before my afternoon surgery clinic, which meant that I was at my desk, eating a ham-and-cheese sandwich and clicking through medical articles. Among those which caught my eye: a British case report on the first 3-D-printed hip implanted in a human being, a Canadian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare and Obstructionism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/10/07/131007taco_talk_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ours can be an unforgiving country. Paul Sullivan was in his fifties, college-educated, and ran a successful small business in the Houston area. He owned a house and three cars. Then the local economy fell apart. Business dried up. He had savings, but, like more than a million people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Hospitals Be Like Restaurant Chains?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends. You may know the chain: a hundred and sixty restaurants with a catalogue-like menu that, when I did a count, listed three hundred and eight dinner items (including...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cowboys and Pit Crews]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/atul-gawande-harvard-medical-school-commencement-address.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his book &ldquo;The Youngest Science,&rdquo; the great physician-writer Lewis  Thomas described his internship at Boston City Hospital in  pre-penicillin 1937. Hospital work, he observed, was mainly custodial.  &ldquo;If being in a hospital bed made a difference,&rdquo; he said,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rethinking End-of-Life Treatment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It started with a cough and a pain in her back. Then a chest X-ray showed that her left lung had collapsed, and her chest was filled with fluid. A sample of the fluid was drawn off...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care: Now What?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/04/05/100405taco_talk_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. In public memory, what ensued was the smooth establishment of a popular program, but in fact Medicare faced a year of nearly crippling rearguard attacks. The American Medical Association had waged war to try to stop the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Master Plan for Curbing Health Care Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/14/091214fa_fact_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Atul Gawande</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. Those gaps have widened to become graves&#8212;resulting in an estimated forty-five thousand premature deaths each year&#8212;and have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expensive Health Care Can Be Harmful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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