"I'm a terrible health cre patient. What do you do wrong? I don't see doctors at all," he says. "i invariably come way late in the game when the mild infection as become a much more significant one." He adds that half of what he's achieved id wish i could go back and fix.
The surgeon, researcher, and celebrated writer joined Tyler for a conversation on why Watson will never diagnose your illness, what George Church’s narcolepsy teaches us about CRISPR, what’s missing in medical education, Michael Crichton’s cultural influence, Knausgård versus Ferrante, indie music, and the thing that makes Gawande “bawl like a baby.”
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Recorded June 12th, 2017 Other ways to connect