ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Atul Gawande is the author of Better and Complications. A MacArthur Fellow, a general and endocrine surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, he also leads the World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives program. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.