Public Health - A Contribution to Legacy in a Way That Feeds Me

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I need to be fed about every three to six months with a victory that feels meaningful and transformative. It's why I took this job at USAID, which required me to leave the New Yorker,. The operating room, left the nonprofits I'd started in order to work on a set of problems at a crisis moment for the planet.

Renowned surgeon Atul Gawande spends his days in the operating theater and his nights writing articles for The New Yorker and bestselling books like Being Mortal. Today on the show, he tells our curator Adam Grant how he balances his passions for different fields, why he works with a coach, and how he's helping the White House end our current pandemic — and prevent the next one.

This is an episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant from the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes on how great minds don't think alike, follow ReThinking wherever you're listening to this.

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