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Rogers SO Jr, Gawande AA, Kwaan M, Puopolo AL, Yoon C, Brennan TA, Studdert DM. Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at 4 liability insurers.
Surgery. 2006 Jul;140(1):25-33.


Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, Gandhi TK, Kachalia A, Yoon C, Puopolo AL, Brennan TA. Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 May 11;354(19):2024-33.

Gawande AA, Monchik JM, Abbruzzese TA, Iannuccilli JD, Ibrahim SI, Moore FD Jr. Reassessment of parathyroid hormone monitoring during parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism after 2 preoperative localization studies.
Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):381-4; discussion 384.

Kwaan MR, Studdert DM, Zinner MJ, Gawande AA. Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery. Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):353-7; discussion 357-8.

Gawande AA. When Law and Ethics Collide -- Why Physicians Participate in Executions. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Mar 23; 354:1221-1229.

Neumayer LA, Gawande AA, Wang J, Giobbie-Hurder A, Itani KM, Fitzgibbons RJ Jr, Reda D, Jonasson O; CSP #456 Investigators. Proficiency of surgeons in inguinal hernia repair: effect of experience and age. Annals of Surgery. 2005; 242(3):344-8; discussion 348-52.

Brennan TA, Gawande AA, Thomas E, Studdert D. Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Sep 29;353(13):1405-9.


Gawande AA. Naked. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Aug 18; 353:645-648.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: Casualties of War -- Military Care for the Wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Dec 9; 351:2471-2475.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: On Washing Hands. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Mar 25; 350:1283-1286.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: Dispatch from India. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003 Dec 18; 349:2383-2386.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. Patient safety: Improving safety with information technology. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348:2526-34.

Gawande AA, Studdert DM, Zinner MJ, Brennan TA. Analysis of errors reported by surgeons at three teaching hospitals. Surgery. 2003;133:614-621.

Gawande AA, Studdert DM, Orav EJ, Brennan TA, Zinner MJ. Patient safety: Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348(3):229-235.

Gawande AA. Creating the educated surgeon in the twenty-first century. American Journal of Surgery. 2001;181(6):551-556.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. The impact of the internet on quality measurement. Health Affairs. 2000;19(6):104-114.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. Error in medicine: what have we learned?  Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;132:763-767.

Gawande AA, Bates DW. The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part III. Patient-support tools.   Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 22:E12.

Gawande AA, Bates DW. The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part II. Physician-support tools.   Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 14:E13.

Gawande AA, Bates DW. The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part I. Information systems for medical transactions. Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 7:E14.

Gawande AA,Thomas EJ, Zinner MJ, Brennan TA. The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. Surgery. 1999;126(1):66-75.

Gawande AA, Blendon R, Brodie M, Benson JM,Levitt L, Hugick L. Does dissatisfaction with health plans stem from having no choices during enrollment?   Health Affairs, 1998;17(5):184-194.

Gawande AA, Donovan WJ, Ginsburg AP, Marmor MF. Photoaversion in retinitis pigmentosa. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 1989;73(2):115-20.

Birngruber R, Fujimoto JG, Puliafito CA, Schoenlein RW, Lin WZ, Gawande AA. Retinal effects produced by femotosecond laser pulse. Fortschr Ophthalmology. 1988;85(6):699-704.

Marmor MF, Gawande AA. Effect of visual blur on contrast sensitivity. Clinical implications. Ophthalmology. 1988;95(1):139-43.

Nanevicz TM, Prince MR, Gawande AA, Puliafito CA. Excimer laser ablation of the lens. Archives of Ophthalmology. 1986;104(12):1825-9.

The Score

The New Yorker

Oct 9, 2006

The Malpractice Mess

The New Yorker

Nov 14, 2005

Piecework

The New Yorker

Apr 4, 2005

The Bell Curve

The New Yorker

Dec 6, 2004

The Mop-Up

The New Yorker

Jan 12, 2004

“Merchants of Immortality”: A Medical Opportunity Collides with Politics

New York Times Book Review

Jul 13, 2003

Desperate Measures

The New Yorker

May 5, 2003

Cold comfort

The New Yorker

Mar 11, 2002

The learning curve

The New Yorker

Jan 28, 2002

The man who couldn’t stop eating

The New Yorker

Jul 9, 2001

Final cut

The New Yorker

Mar 19, 2001

Crimson tide

The New Yorker

Feb 12, 2001

Under suspicion

The New Yorker

Jan 8, 2001

When good doctors go bad

The New Yorker

Aug 7, 2000

The maggot talks

New York Times Book Review

Sept 10, 2000

Where to go for medical advice on the web

The Shopping Club

Slate

Jun 15, 2000

Whose body is it anyway?

The New Yorker

Oct 4, 1999

A queasy feeling

The New Yorker

Jul 5, 1999

The cancer-cluster myth

The New Yorker

Feb 8, 1999

When doctors make mistakes

The New Yorker

Feb 1, 1999

Why money won't buy fat: In rich countries, the rich get rich and the poor get fat

Medical Examiner

Slate

Dec 24, 1998

No HMO scare -- yet: The system's real problem isn't the flight of a few HMOs

Medical Examiner

Slate

Oct 22, 1998

Juicy journals: For us doctors, medical journals aren't just vital knowledge, they're gossip

Medical Examiner

Slate

Sept 24, 1998

The pain perplex

The New Yorker

Sept 21, 1998.

The dead baby mystery: Telling homicide from sudden infant death syndrome isn't as easy as you think

Medical Examiner

Slate

Sept 3, 1998

The buck stops with the doc: Sometimes, blaming the system is fair, but in medicine, it can be a dangerous cop-out

Medical Examiner

Slate

Jul 22, 1998

Manning the hospital barricades -- Why do groups (even groups of doctors) instinctively hate each other?

Medical Examiner

Slate

Jun 25, 1998

Organ peddling -- a dialogue

Medical Examiner

Slate

Jun 2-30, 1998

Organ meat -- letting people peddle their organs might save lives, but the ethical price is too high

Medical Examiner

Slate

May 28, 1998

Mouse hunt: Forget cancer. Is there a cure for hype?

The New Yorker

May 18, 1998

Viagra creep -- Quality-of-life drugs may threaten more than insurers

Medical Examiner

Slate

May 14, 1998

The human cost of crippling Castro: Health care is still pretty good in Cuba, unless you die waiting for embargoed supplies

Medical Examiner

Slate

Apr 20, 1998

No mistake: The future of medical care--machines that act like doctors, and doctors who act like machines

The New Yorker

Mar 30, 1998

E.R. and the triple hex: When a full moon and a lunar eclipse collide with Friday the 13th, do more accidents really happen?

Medical Examiner

Slate

Mar 19, 1998

One for my baby, but 0.08 for the road: Why the liquor lobby's arguments against cutting blood-alcohol limits are all wet

Medical Examiner

Slate

Feb 25, 1998

Partial truths in the partial-birth abortion debate: Every abortion is gross, but the technique is not the issue

Medical Examiner

Slate

Jan 28, 1998

Cold comfort: Zinc may help your snuffles, but only because you really believe it will

Medical Examiner

Slate

Dec 24, 1997

Suicide watch: The strange case of Capt. Craig Button

Medical Examiner

Slate

Nov 20, 1997

Treating AIDS in the third world: Testing less than the best is unethical only if you think no help is better than some help

Medical Examiner

Slate

Nov 6, 1997

Of course you don't like your HMO: It's because your employer chose your health plan, and you didn't

Medical Examiner

Slate

Oct 23, 1997

Drowsy docs: If tired truckers are a threat, what about those sleep-deprived medical residents?

Medical Examiner

Slate

Oct 8, 1997

Cybertests: Hate exams (medical or otherwise)? What if a computer designed them just for you?

Medical Examiner

Slate

Sept 25, 1997

Gamma burgers: Food irradiation is safe, even if it is overkill

Medical Examiner

Slate

Sept 11, 1997

The hunger: Body chemistry, not willpower is the key to losing those 10 pounds

Medical Examiner

Slate

Aug 28, 1997

Rx profit: Can hospitals serve both patients and stockholders?

Medical Examiner

Slate

Aug 14, 1997

DOA: The feds' $24 billion health care program for kids is a flatliner

Medical Examiner

Slate

Aug 1, 1997

The unkindest cut: The science and ethics of castration

Medical Examiner

Slate

Jul 11, 1997

Diary of a surgical resident
Diaries

Slate
Jun 2-7, 1997

The Gist: Persian Gulf War Syndrome

The Gist

Slate

Oct 25, 1996