Atul Gawande on Speeding up Major Medical Innovations that Spread Slowly. Common Sense Solutions.

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Atul Gawande is the most influential physician in public policy debates in the US today, at least in the media through his articles and books, most of whom have been best sellers.

In a piece in the current New Yorker, link below, he probes why certain major medical innovations like anesthesia spread rapidly while other equally major ones like anti-septic did not.  


Atul Gawande: How do you speed innovations that spread slowly? New Yorker July 29, 2013


Gawande's interest in public policy is not surprising considering he also has an MA in Philosophy,  Politics and Economics, the famed tripos program at Oxford University. For more information on him:

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