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Atul Gawande on why American healthcare desperately needs innovation

The TED Interview

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What Makes Anesthesia Viral?

The discovery of anesthesia and the discovery of antisepsis were both published in major journals. One spread around the world in weeks, while another took a generation to become widely used. "I think that it's just that we haven't told the story enough is, I think, partly not to understand human nature," he says.

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