Dr. Atul Gawande on 'The Problem of Hubris'
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Atul Gawande is a surgeon who practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Photo Courtesy of Fred Field, 2009.
Dr. Atul Gawande's lecture on the egotism and hubris of medical professionals who think they can fix everything, even though aging and death aren't "fixable." Surgeon and best-selling author of "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End."
The third in the BBC's 2014 Reith Lecture Series, this one given in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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