Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon

Post by pwinnski » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:06 PM UTC

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Considering how f...ed up the American health system is on all levels I am fine with giving an outsider a chance. Gawande appears to be a reasonable guy and a good communicator. Even if he fails, nothing is lost because the system can't get worse.

This is exactly the same logic I heard used by many people voting for Trump. The truth is that there usually is a real downside from failure, even if it feels like our huge systems are as bad as they can get. In other words, while we do have an expensive system with worse outcomes than peer nations, at least right now we have healthcare being delivered at a first-world level, and we shouldn't take that for granted.

Post by selimthegrim » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

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Care to share what you found?

Sure. Well every to-do app has most of the functionality you need (Wunderlist is the one I like the best). They have annual reminders so you can put a checklist for taxes or something. BJ Novak has https://li.st/bjnovak/ which is a general list sharing app. It has the social component that I think would be very useful applied to to-do lists. Finally, there are ready made list apps which help you maintain your home, h…

Post by Karishma1234 » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:11 PM UTC

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Atul Gawande is a brilliant person with interesting ideas on how to make healthcare more humane and robust. This is still probably a terrible choice of CEO. To my knowledge he has never run a large organization or dealt directly with the complex backend of the healthcare system. The was healthcare is delivered and paid for is full of independent, semi monopolistic players that have often conflicting incentives. Oh an…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

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Jeff bezos mentioned they were looking for someone with expert knowledge, a beginner's mind, and a long-term perspective. Any leader of a current large healthcare organization would probably fail the 2nd and potentially 3rd criteria. In light of these criteria, the choice of Atul Gawande makes sense

That’s actually my point, I would argue Gawande doesn’t have expert knowledge. Being an expert surgeon is a very different skill set than an expert in healthcare delivery and management. Let’s take the checklist manifesto, a fantastic idea that unfortunately isn’t as widely applied as it should be. Why? Because if you ask most surgeons they’ll say, “yeah it’s a great idea, I do it already/I don’t need to do it though…

Post by sjg007 » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:16 PM UTC

entee wrote: post #69

aaavl2821 wrote: post #57

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Jeff bezos mentioned they were looking for someone with expert knowledge, a beginner's mind, and a long-term perspective. Any leader of a current large healthcare organization would probably fail the 2nd and potentially 3rd criteria. In light of these criteria, the choice of Atul Gawande makes sense

That’s actually my point, I would argue Gawande doesn’t have expert knowledge. Being an expert surgeon is a very different skill set than an expert in healthcare delivery and management. Let’s take the checklist manifesto, a fantastic idea that unfortunately isn’t as widely applied as it should be. Why? Because if you ask most surgeons they’ll say, “yeah it’s a great idea, I do it already/I don’t need to do it though…