Atul Gawande

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dax and Atul discuss the personalities of surgeons and the use of checklists to remedy the complexity of their responsibilities. Dax tells a scary hospice story and the two discuss how you determine your priorities as you reach the later stages of life. In the fact check, Monica & Dax discuss training crows to do complex tasks. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm Jack Shepard. This is Monec of happen.
0:04.3	Oh yeah.
0:05.3	That's not like a record going backwards?
0:07.3	Yeah.
0:08.3	Welcome, um, um, well, experts on experts, that's what we got ahead of us today.
0:16.3	A really interesting expert on a topic we generally avoid.
0:20.9	Death.
0:21.9	Now, Atul Guanday was recommended to us by Julia Louis Dreyfus. She said
0:27.4	she had read a book called Being Mortal, Illness, Medicine, and What Matters
0:31.9	in the End and she said that was her what matters in the end.
0:33.1	And she said that was her favorite book on the topic.
0:35.4	So we got to talk to a tool, and a tool is an American surgeon,
0:39.0	writer and public health researcher.
0:40.5	He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
0:45.1	Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, Road Scholar, MacArthur
0:50.3	fellow, you name it, he's done it. he's got four books, complications, better, the
0:55.3	checklist manifesto, and being mortal.
0:58.8	We loved a tool.
1:00.8	We did, and we learned a lot from it. Yeah he gives you a great framework for
1:04.7	conversations that we all will have at some point. Have to have. So please
1:08.8	enjoy a tool go one day.
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