Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Getting Less for More

There’s an excellent piece in this week’s New Yorker, by the surgeon-author Atul Gawande….must reading during the ongoing debate about healthcare reform. Gawande uses real life examples from a Texas community to illustrate just how broken our healthcare system is. The larger points of the article aren't exactly new, but the way he addresses them makes them very accessible. Go read it for yourself.

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