What's Worth Living For? | Dr. Atul Gawande
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What's Worth Living For? | Dr. Atul Gawande

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202656 min

A surprisingly uplifting conversation on aging, sickness, and death. Plus: why you get happier as you get older, hard-earned tips for handling tough diagnoses, and how to think about AI in your health care. Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, author, and public health innovator. He holds the Fish Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of the Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Gawande was Assistant Administrator for Global H...

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Hey everybody, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I am your host Dan Harris. As a Buddhist, I am simultaneously galvanized by and terrified by the unavoidable fact of death. Galvanized because being aware of your mortality can make life more vivid and vibrant in the present moment and terrified because like who's not afraid of dying. Today though, I'm talking

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to a very famous doctor who argues that we can make this process, which again is coming for all of us, much more humane. Dr. Atul Gawande is a renowned surgeon, a Harvard professor, a writer for The New Yorker, and the bestselling author of many, many books, including the one we're going to focus on today, which is called Being Mortal. Now, you might be

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thinking, didn't Being Mortal come out in 2014? Yes, it did. But that was before I had a podcast and I've been meaning to have Dr. Gawande on the show for a long time. And then I found an excuse because just a few months ago, the New York Times listed Being Mortal as one of the top five books that will lift you up in hard times, which reminded

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