This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about medical costs. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) Today Gawande answered readers’ ...

Dr. Atul Gawande has described his new health care company as a “nonprofit” that will operate independently from the three massive corporations providing its funding — a firewall he said is crucial to ...

The ever-prolific Atul Gawande chatted it up last night with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, promoting his latest book, “Being Mortal.” The two discussed end-of-life care – and how patients and ...

Brigham and Women’s surgeon and Harvard’s Ariadne Labs founder Dr. Atul Gawande will bring his public health prowess to a new role at the helm of an Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway ...

Dr. Atul Gawande is hitting the road. In one of his first actions as a CEO, Gawande is planning to travel across the country to meet with the employees he will serve through the health care venture ...

Dr. Atul Gawande will step out of health care’s limelight on Monday to put himself under its microscope. Taking the helm of the new health venture funded by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire ...

Three-quarters of the way through “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande pulls back his carefully stitched curtain of reporting and research to relate the story of his ...

When news broke that Dr. Atul Gawande had been named CEO of the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Chase healthcare partnership, industry insiders were quick to raise doubts about his credentials. Some pointed ...

If Atul Gawande’s first week as CEO of a health care startup was anything like mine, I hope he is able to get away from it all and enjoy a completely relaxing weekend. He will have earned it. After ...

End-of-life care isn’t a subject that usually dominates media headlines. But over the past few weeks, the story of Brittany Maynard — a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer who has ...

This week in the magazine, Atul Gawande writes about end-of-life care. Today, Gawande answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of their discussion follows. ATUL GAWANDE: Welcome!