Atul Gawande

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2014 by BBC

Dec 6, 201534:56Society & Culture

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 Schoo...

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