Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On June 20, 2018, Dr. Gawande was named the CEO of a recently formed healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase.
He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
Dine kære skal dø. Du skal dø. Vi skal alle dø. Vi ved bare ikke hvornår.
Medicinske fremskridt skubber hele tiden grænserne for overlevelse, og vi er blevet stadig mere løsrevet fra det faktum, at vi er dødelige.
Denne bog handler om oplevelsen af dødelighed i dag. Om at blive gammel og dø. Med indsigt og følsomhed fortæller Atul Gawande om sine erfaringer som kirurg, om sine patienter og om sin egen families oplevelser. Han lærer os at acceptere livets grænser. Det endelige mål er, trods alt, ikke en god død, men et godt liv – helt frem til slutningen.
"Gawande er en mesterlig fortæller og en gudsbenådet formidler. Det er en bog om livet og døden og derfor en bog for alle." - Jacob Birkler, formand for Det Etiske Råd.
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