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Surgeon Atul Gawande wants everyone to have a coach

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How Did You Choose Surgery?

When you're young, "you don't know what actually energizes you and what you will prove to be good at," he says. He started with a base assumption that I grew up around medicine, so I could be comfortable in it. By the time he got out of college, he was ready to do several things that took ten years to fit together. That blossomed into saying yes to spending time on presidential campaigns around healthcare.

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