UNBELIEVABLE: Atul gawande - The Untold Story

What Atul Gawande's Checklist Method Can Fix in Your Daily Routine

A surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital once asked why trained professionals keep making the same preventable mistakes. Atul Gawande's answer, laid out in The Checklist Manifesto, was not incompetence, it was complexity. When a task has too many steps, memory alone fails even the most careful person. The household…

Times Life · Oct 31

Researchers Estimate USAID Cuts Have Already Led to 700,000 Deaths Worldwide

World Health Organization estimates show that emergency health services reached more than 80 million people in 2024 but more than 50 million fewer in 2025

Latin Times · Jul 13

Trump has declared war — on the Kennedys

From Jack and Jackie to Bobby, Ted and Eunice, Trump is on a rampage against the Kennedy legacy

Salon · Jan 4

‘I couldn’t care less if I saw another sunrise’ – what older people who are ‘tired of life’ can tell us about the assisted dying debate

I can totally relate to tiredness of life. Guess what? I saw a beautiful sunrise yesterday morning, acknowledged it, and couldn’t care less if I saw another one.

The Conversation · Nov 27, 2024

US officials attend Gaza aid meetings on site of Israeli prison accused of ‘horrific’ torture

Revealed: USAid officials meet Israeli counterparts at Sde Teiman base, where detainees say abuse runs rampant

The Guardian - US · Oct 14, 2024

Aged care design need a rethink and these experts say working with older Australians will help

Australia's residential aged care system is struggling. According to some, the solution is embracing a system that values the input and experience of older Australians.

ABC News · Mar 13, 2023

Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency

PATTAYA, Thailand — Ten years ago, Ukraine wasn’t a relatively large recipient of international aid for health and family planning.

Tribune News Service · Jan 12, 2023

Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency - Roll Call

The U.S. has ping-ponged between supporting the United Nations Population Fund and pulling its funding altogether.

Roll Call · Jan 11, 2023

Future Air Force officers get a 30,000-foot view of death in this course

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2022

Faced with COVID and monkeypox, new USAID leader draws strength from African proverb

Dr Atul Gawande, the surgeon and bestselling health writer talks, to NPR about the problems he has inherited as the new head of USAID's global health office.

WEKU · Jul 11, 2022