Fragmented and Disorganized

At Salon Rahul K. Parikh interviews Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.

[He] has only been a practicing surgeon for six years, and he is still just an assistant professor at Harvard, but his game-changing New Yorker essay about the gobsmacking cost of healthcare in McAllen, Texas, became required reading in the White House. As a New Yorker staff writer, Gawande has long been known for his meditative, honest and lyrical essays about medicine, but his work became that much more important as healthcare exploded into a national conversation (and crisis).