Thursday, June 21, 2012

Atul Gawande: Failure and Rescue

6/21/12.

The following was delivered as the commencement address at Williams College on Sunday, June 3rd.

Dr. Gawande:

"We had a patient at my hospital this winter whose story has stuck with me. Mrs. C. was eighty-seven years old, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, and she’d come to the emergency room because she’d suddenly lost the vision in her left eye. It tells you something about her that she was at work when it happened—in the finance department at Sears..."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/06/atul-gawande-failure-and-rescue.html

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