Physicians and Money

A Commencement Address on “Positive Deviancy”

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money1One June 12th, 2009, New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande MD delivered this commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago; Pritzker School of Medicine. It expands on the themes he touched on in his recent article about health-care costs in McAllen, Texas, which figures in President Obama’s vision on health care reform. 

 

 

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/06/atul-gawande-university-of-chicago-medical-school-commencement-address.html

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