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• Letting Go

  by Atul Gawande + Follow

  The New Yorker | August 2010

  "Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left."

• The Cost Conundrum

  by Atul Gawande + Follow

  The New Yorker | June 2009

  What a Texas town can teach us about health care.

• The Way We Age Now

  by Atul Gawande + Follow

  The New Yorker | April 2007

  Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?