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The Velluvial Matrix

19 June, 2010 by Amit Varma

Check out Atul Gawande’s commencement speech at Stanford’s School of Medicine a few days ago. Money quote:

Like politics, all medicine is local.

I’m reading Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto now, and it’s quite excellent. Better was probably better, but why compare?

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