The battle for the soul of medicine revolves around two poles Atul Gawande, perennially eloquent surgeon, wrote in The New Yorker last year: When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to realize that we are witnessing a battle for the soul [...]
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