Little Rock Atul Gawande is best known to many of us as a doctor who writes important articles about healthcare in the New Yorker magazine. To his patients he is known as a good surgeon in Boston, and to other surgeons, he is also known as someone who advocates and develops simple checklists for other …
Category: Health Care
When Will We Recognize Direct Care Worker Crises
New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that …
India’s Supreme Court Gives Temporary Victory for Key Generic Drugs
New Orleans Thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court in India many desperately ill leukemia patients in Africa and Asia will live, though of course many more will die. The court ruled that that Indian pharmaceutical factories can continue making a generic version of the drug Gleevec made by Novartis. In the developed world …