Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.
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Humane Endeavor
An interview with doctor and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande about end-of-life care, his writing career, and his early days on Bill Clinton’s political team.
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Longreads Best of 2012: Edith Zimmerman
Edith Zimmerman is founding editor of The Hairpin and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. She’s also written for GQ, Elle, The Awl and This American Life. I’m not a doctor, but … (always a confidence-inspiring way to start a sentence!), these pieces on healthcare were two of the best articles I […]
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What can hospitals learn from a national restaurant chain like Cheesecake Factory? ‘It is unbelievable to me that they would not manage this better,’ Luz said. I asked him what he would do if he were the manager of a neurology unit or a cardiology clinic. ‘I don’t know anything about medicine,’ he said. But […]
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From Jason Fagone: my top five @longreads of 2010
jfagone: Jeff Sharlet, Harper’s, Straight Man’s Burden Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Letting Go Patrick Symmes, Harper’s, Thirty Days as a Cuban Chris Jones, Esquire, What Happened to Roger Ebert? Moe Tkacik, Columbia Journalism Review, Look at Me!
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“There was a moment in sports when employing a coach was unimaginable—and then came a time when not doing so was unimaginable. We care about results in sports, and if we care half as much about results in schools and in hospitals we may reach the same conclusion.” “Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers […]
