When we spoke in 2017, he described an early life steeped in the Hindu practice he still calls defining for his identity. He’s been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and is the author of four books, including The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.Ītul Gawande grew up in the Appalachian foothills of rural Ohio near the West Virginia border, feeling more than a little out of place with two Indian immigrant parents. He took a break after his first two years of medical school to work as a campaign strategist for then-governor Bill Clinton. He’s also CEO of Haven, a new healthcare venture formed by Amazon and other large companies to remodel the U.S. Atul Gawande practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he’s also a professor at Harvard. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. And in fact, can we, along the way, whatever’s happening, can we enable it? What are those reasons? Because whatever you’re living for, along the way, we’ve got to make sure we don’t sacrifice it. And for the millions who have read his book Being Mortal, he’s also opened new conversation about the ancient human question of death and what it might have to do with life.Ītul Gawande: The conversation I felt like I was having was, do we fight, or do we give up?Īnd the reality was that it’s not do we fight, or do we give up? It’s what are we fighting for? People have priorities besides just surviving no matter what. He’s a citizen physician on frontiers of human agency and meaning in light of what modern medicine makes possible. The incident is garnering some unwanted attention, including from one guy who runs a car company that’s under investigation for numerous crashes involving stopped emergency vehicles and really shouldn’t be gloating about things like this.Krista Tippett, host: What does a good day look like? This is the question that transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. In the video, you can see Waymo’s safety drivers turning the steering wheels, which suggests that the vehicles haven’t quite mastered the turn. The obvious difference is that Waymo is still using safety drivers for its tests in San Francisco. It called to mind a recent event in Phoenix, in which a fully driverless Waymo vehicle got stuck at an intersection and then, when an extraction crew showed up, tried to run away before completely blocking a three-lane highway. But I’m really just having too much fun watching these confused robot cars pile into this dead-end street over and over again. “We continually adjust to dynamic San Francisco road rules”Īs someone who covers the AV industry, I could also speculate about the need for companies to train their vehicle’s artificial intelligence software in all the elements of human driving, including messy maneuvers like the dreaded three-point turn.
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