Interview with Atul Gawande

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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With Ezra and Matt on summer vacation, Sarah is left to her own devices — and decides to share a fantastic interview from the Ezra Klein Show with surgeon and writer Atul Gawande. Atul talks about the fascinating academic work he has in progress, attempting to improve end-of-life care and make hospitals safer, and how he became a writer in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's episode is also sponsored by NatureBox,
0:02.2	go to natrobox.com slash Weeds for 50% off your first order.
0:06.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:14.8	Smoothies are delicious.
0:19.2	Welcome to The Weeds, Fox's policy podcast on the Panably Network.
0:23.1	I am Sarah Cliff and here with me is literally nobody.
0:26.9	I am sitting in a radio studio by myself,
0:29.5	which is possibly the saddest weed scenario you can think of.
0:32.9	Matt is on vacation, Ezra is also out.
0:35.9	And while I could sit here, I'm sure I could talk for an hour
0:39.2	as Weeds listeners know.
0:40.1	I might have some thoughts on the space time continuum.
0:42.8	We're going to do something a little bit different today.
0:44.6	We have this great interview that my co-host Ezra did
0:47.5	for his other podcast, The Ezra Client Show,
0:49.9	which some of you might listen to, highly recommend subscribing.
0:52.9	He didn't interview with this writer and health policy
0:55.6	wonk. I've admired for so long a tool go on day.
0:58.8	You might be familiar with his work.
1:00.7	He writes for The New Yorker.
1:02.0	He is a surgeon.
1:04.0	He is, as Ezra mentions in this interview,
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