Mar 9th, 2010 · The economy is tough for plastic surgeons, too. Some popular procedures, including breast augmentation and tummy tucks, are being performed a lot less often. Botox injections are holding steady, however.
Mar 2nd, 2010 · Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger cut a $20,000 check to surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande after reading his New Yorker article on health costs. Gawande donated the money to an international health project.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · William Halsted is credited with creating the United State's first surgical residency program and transforming the way operating rooms are sterilized. He was also a morphine addict. Plastic surgeon Gerald Imber details Halsted's dual lives in the new biography, Genius on the Edge.
Jan 12th, 2010 · This week, a novel asks, does God exist? David Malouf re-imagines an episode from Homer's Iliad, and surgeon-writer Atul Gawande offers a simple solution for the complicated problem of healing patients. Also, a memoir of life and linguistics in an Amazon tribe.
Jan 5th, 2010 · The surgeon and writer talks with Steve Inskeep about the massively complicated process of keeping patients alive, and shares ideas about how that process might be streamlined. Gawande's newest book is called The Checklist Manifesto.
Dec 24th, 2009 · Many surgeons listen to music in the operating room; surveys tell us as much, and so do surgeons. But the practice hasn't been subjected to rigorous study, until now. Dr. Claudius Conrad is a German-born, Boston-based surgeon who also trained as a concert pianist and holds a Ph.D. in music philosophy. Conrad has performed scholarly research on the effect music in the operating room has on the work of surgeons.
Dec 16th, 2009 · A doctor treating the 2-year-old said the needles were apparently stuck inside the boy one by one. He said surgeons will remove most of the needles, but some of them are too close to vital organs or actually inside them and can't be removed. Police have opened an investigation.
Dec 9th, 2009 · Congress is moving closer to passing a health care bill that does not quite reach one of its major goals: guaranteeing some way to cut soaring health care costs. Surgeon Atul Gawande, who also writes for The New Yorker tells Steve Inskeep the current health care debate is reminiscent of the nation's farming debate at the turn of the century.