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Atul Gawande on why American healthcare desperately needs innovation

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

The Story of India

My father, like many young people in India, left the family to follow his dreams. He would enforce contracts against people and when they didn't pay up for their loans or all of those kinds of things. And he was on that bus still on the way to court because he was going to insist on keeping on doing that. In India, where now the population has moved to the cities, that extended family is breaking down. You have an explosion in growth of nursing homes and communities for the elderly. There are breakdowns from neglect, especially of the poor elderly.

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