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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Atul Gawande's Commencement Address: Curiosity and What Equality Really Means

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This speech was originally delivered as the commencement address to graduates from U.C.L.A. Medical School on June 1, 2018.

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Lights that spark fire nation JLD here with a commencement address to the

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graduates from the UCLA Medical School back on June 1st 2018 by a tool

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Gawande curiosity in what equality really means fire nation this is a very

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intense address so before warned there may be something said at the beginning

0:26.8

that are not for the faint of hearts but I can assure you this message this

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speech is an incredible one I truly hope you enjoy and we will dive in right

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into the speech by a tool Gawande curiosity in what equality really means I want

1:08.0

to start with the story one night on my surgery rotation during my third year

1:12.4

medical school I follow my chief resident into the trauma bay in the emergency

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department we've been summoned to see a prisoner who swallowed half a razor blade

1:20.8

and slash his left wrist with the corner of the crimp on a toothpaste tube he

1:25.5

was about 30 built like a boxer with a tattoo neck hands shackled to the

1:29.5

gurney and gauze around his left wrist showing bright crimson seeping through

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the first thing out of his mouth was a creepy comment about the chief resident

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an Asian American woman I won't say what he said just how he managed and only a

1:42.0

few words to be racist sexes and utterly menacing to her she turned on her

1:46.3

heels handing me the clipboard and said he's all yours I looked at the two

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