"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
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About Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He is a practicing general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Gawande is also a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. As a prominent author, he has written several best-selling books, including 'Complications,' 'Better,' and 'Being Mortal,' which explore topics in medicine, healthcare, and the human experience of illness and mortality.
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