Atul Gawande, physician and bestselling New Yorker author, delivered the commencement address at Harvard Medical School.
It’s like no one’s in charge—because no one is. The public’s experience is that we have amazing clinicians and technologies but little consistent sense that they come together to provide an actual system of care, from start to finish, for people. We train, hire, and pay doctors to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews people need.Read the full speech on NewYorker.com, News Desk: Cowboys and Pit Crews. Your reaction to Gawande's speech? Post a comment below (log in first with your DHE password) and tell us what you think about teamwork amidst the complexity of modern medicine.