Health Checklist from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, discusses his book and offers his take on how to improve our healthcare system. Listen to the podcast.

Atul Gawande on Health Care Now from On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast

We speak with Atul Gawande, the surgeon and writer who has emerged as one of the country's leading interpreters of what's going on with American health care. His latest book is "The Checklist Manifesto." Listen to the podcast.

Atul Gawande: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

In 2009, the author wrote this in the New Yorker: McAllen has another distinction, too: it is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami—which has much higher labor and living costs—spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns. See that New Yorker piece here. In the video below, the author's giving a talk that involves the topics and subjects of his book, at large, at Google's corporate campus (part of the company's "Authors @Google" series). The second video is of an interview of the author by Charlie Rose.