Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality
Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality  
Podcast: The Good Fight
Published On: Tue Jan 27 2026
Description: Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes. Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.  In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how simple checklists can boost survival rates in the operating theater, what it means to have quality of life, and our complicated relationship with mortality.If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices