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Atul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and been named one of the world's hundred most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy and TIME. In his work as a public health researcher, he is Director of Ariadne Labs a joint center for health system innovation. And he is also co-founder and chairman of Lifebox, a global not-for-profit implementing systems and technologies to reduce surgical deaths globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts. You can find more at http://www.atulgawande.com.
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    • Being Mortal

    • Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Written by: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-07
    • Language: English
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    • Complications

    • A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    • Written by: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • Better

    • A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    • Written by: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2007-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Como fazer as coisas bem-feitas [How to Get Things Right]
    • Written by: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Luciano Andrey
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 2023-03-17
    • Language: Portuguese
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