Haven't seen an article by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker in some time, but this week's issue brings relief. Really good stuff. The essay draws attention to a fact few doctors, hospitals, and patients like to acknowledge: quality of health care follows a bell curve, with mediocrity in the center.
Gawande's book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science collects many of his earlier New Yorker essays and is one of my favorite books.