Dr. Atul Gawande: 'Why Do Doctors Fail?'

Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is a surgeon who practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.
Photo Courtesy of Fred Field, 2009.

The first of four lectures by renowned Boston surgeon, New Yorker writer and best-selling author Atul Gawande. The BBC's Reith Lecture series on "The Future of Medicine." Today's lecture is titled, "Why Do Doctors Fail?"

Atul Gawande says there is an explosion of discovery, but there are many areas of complete ignorance.

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