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by okay_dude_321 1323 days ago
> Atul Gawande

In retrospect, this guy is practically the prototype of villain in healthcare. He's Eric Lander levels of villainy.

He shouldn't be considered a credible voice just out of corruption. There are many doctors who can write.

Consider his role at Partners (now "Mass General Brigham"): overseeing the growth of a notoriously money grubbing institution, run anticompetitively, despite the excellence of its providers. He has parlayed... saucy New Yorker writing into becoming the very hospital administrator who is responsible for all the fuckups he shits on.

Trust me, if he has something to say about, I don't know, fucking childbirth, it has been known to everyone for years. The difference is his presence in The Magazine New Yorkers Care About lets him omit anything shitty to say about himself and his Partners.

2 comments

Citation?

With all due respect your post sounds a little like a conspiracy theory without a set of good sources.

Is the claim that someone is evil even an intellectual position (versus, a religious one)? And finally but not facetiously, does being evil invalidates a technical statement they're making -- sounds like an ad hom?

checklist book was good

what has he done that’s bad?