2015.12.06 外科医生、作家和前雷斯讲师阿图尔-加万德

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外科医生、作家和前雷斯讲师阿图尔-加万德

他是波士顿的一名普通和内分泌外科医生，是哈佛大学公共卫生学院卫生政策与管理系和哈佛大学医学院外科系的教授。

他出生在布鲁克林，是两个医生的儿子，他们来到美国学习医学。从斯坦福大学毕业并在牛津大学学习哲学、政治学和经济学后，他开始了短暂的政治生涯，为比尔-克林顿的总统竞选活动工作，并在他当选后在白宫从事卫生和社会政策工作。当克林顿的健康政策改革陷入困境时，阿图尔回到哈佛大学，完成他在牛津大学毕业后开始的医学学位。

在外科住院期间，他开始为网络杂志《Slate》写作，自1998年以来，他一直为《纽约客》写作。他2009年的文章《成本难题》被奥巴马总统在试图让医疗改革立法通过国会时引用。迄今为止，阿图尔已经出版了四本关于医学的成就，但也有局限性的书。

2014年，他在英国广播公司的雷斯讲座上发表了一系列题为《医学的未来》的四场演讲。



Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, author and former Reith lecturer, Atul Gawande.

A general and endocrine surgeon in Boston, he is professor in both the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Born in Brooklyn, he is the son of two doctors who came to the US to study medicine. After graduating from Stanford and studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, he embarked on a brief political career, working for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and on his health and social policy in the White House following his election. When Clinton's health policy reform floundered, Atul returned to Harvard to finish the medical degree he'd started after Oxford.

During his surgical residency he began writing for the online magazine Slate and he's been writing for the New Yorker since 1998. His 2009 article "The Cost Conundrum" was cited by President Barack Obama during his attempt to get the healthcare reform legislation through Congress. Atul has published four books to date about the achievements, but also the limitations, of medicine.

In 2014 he presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, delivering a series of four talks titled The Future of Medicine.