Health care is good, a but has really poor reliability given the amount of money we spend in health care. We're terribly organized for beingable to deliver on it. High blood pressure is one of the simplest things that we can take on. It's the biggest killer in the country. Some people are having side effects that leave them to stop it. And some people are just way disorganized and need help.
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