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A surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer at The New Yorker and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of several books, including The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. His most recent book is Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.