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Ask him to comment on the astronomical cost of medical education and the effects on future physicians.

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Please ask Dr Gawande, what happened when he was working with Warren Buffet and Amazon to revolutionize healthcare? What were the challenges?

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Came to post this.

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Since Being Mortal came out, have doctor/ patient conversations become more honest and realistic not just with end of life care but in general?

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Ask for his autograph in one of his books! Love him. (My niece worked a case with him when she was an anesthesia resident. She refused to ask for one then.)

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Please ask Dr Gawande if he would like to be my friend, whether he would consider writing here on Substack with us, and whether he would like a free subscription to my primary care newsletter...

But seriously, I’m just a big fan. Has he been following the advent of AI in medicine, and what are some hopes and fears as it looms ahead, on a seemingly inevitable collision course with humanism in medicine.

Not that the practice of medicine hasn’t already been thoroughly dehumanized by the healthcare system.

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