Prognosis
Can This Surgeon Help Buffett, Bezos and Dimon Solve America’s Health-Care Crisis?
- Atul Gawande faces challenge of soaring health-care costs
- Key to success will be management team he hires, analysts say
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The Harvard surgeon and author picked to run a heralded new health-care venture has compared the U.S. medical system to a car built with Porsche brakes, a Ferrari engine and a BMW chassis.
“You put it all together and what do you get?” Atul Gawande asked the audience at a 2012 TED conference. “A very expensive pile of junk that does not go anywhere.”