Atul Gawande discusses his latest book, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance." Dr. Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was named a MacArthur fellow in 2006. This event took place at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters on May 1, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Surgeon and author Atul Gawande was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2006. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. More information is at www.macfound.org.

Tigers gym open mma championships 2006 Pradyum gawande [eklehera fight club] takes on Sachin Dhondge [bulls gym] in this prelim fight.The TGO event is a proving ground for amateur mma fighters to enter the national amateur mma scene in India www.tigersgym.com tigersgym@gmail.com

Tigers gym open mma championships 2006 Pradyum Gawande[eklehere fight club] takes on Shreekant Sathe[tigers gym]in this semi-final fight.Shreekant is the younger brother of "Predator" Shashi Sathe.The TGO event is a proving ground for amateur mma fighters to enter the national amateur mma scene in India www.tigersgym.com tigersgym@gmail.com

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Better: a surgeon's notes on performance by Atul Gawande Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Software professionals Ashish Bhuta, Megha Malviya and Amit Gawande all working with Persistent narrated the concept details of Anti Child Begging Campaign. These committed individuals are setting a good example before the society as they are running this thriving activity from their own pockets. Story & Video By - Kaumudi Gurjar,Mid-Day,Pune

Three months after the UPA government announced a loan waiver for debt-ridden farmers, the benefit is yet to trickle down to the farmers in Vidarbha. With the monsoon already here, they are not getting fresh loans from banks to sow seeds. Sahebrao Gawande, a farmer, is a worried man. The monsoon has arrived but Gawande can't sow a single seed on his two-acre plot.

4/3/07 I went to a talk by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, author and professor at Harvard. He did a study looking at why doctors accidentally leave sponges, tools in a patient during surgery, called "Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery." N Engl J Med. 2003 Jan 16;348(3):229-35..... more

Absurdist HMS graduation speech 2005 by Greg Feldman.