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Atul Gawande

Saturday 5th of September 2026

Healthcare “I am lucky I can get my teeth looked at because I'm dating a dental hygienist. But” — here he showed me his white-toothed grin — “I can't date a dental hygienist and  a cardiologist.” A childhood friend who lives paycheck to paycheck, quoted by Atul Gawande in  The New Yorker, October 10, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare – One recent study shows that, between 1970 and 2016, the earnings that laborers received fell twenty-one per cent. But their total compensation, taken to in- clude the cost of their benefits (in particu- lar, health care), rose sixty-eight per cent. Increases in health-care costs have devoured take-home pay for those below median income. At the same time, the system practically begs employers to reduce the number of less skilled workers they hire, by outsoourcing or automating their positions. Atul Gawande, New Yorker, March 16, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public health The blighted prospects of the less educated are a public health crisis, and, as the number of victims [of COVID-19 coronavirus] mounts, it will be harder to ignore. Atul Gawande, New Yorker, March 16, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Schools Across America, the large mass of kids in the middle – the ones without money, book smarts, or athletic prowess –  were outsiders in their own schoosls. Few others cared about what they felt or believed or experienced. They were the unspecial and unpromising, looked down upon by and almost completely separated from the college-bound crowd. Life was already understood to be a game of winners and losers; they were the designated losers, and they resented it. The most consis- tent message these students had received was that their lives were of less value than others'. Is it so surprising that some of them find satisfaction in a politics that says, essentially, Screw 'em all? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Oct. 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com