Doctors, Not Gods

Atul Gawande gave the commencement speech at Stanford's School of Medicine. A taste:

The truth is that the volume and complexity of the knowledge thatwe need to master has grown exponentially beyond our capacity asindividuals. Worse, the fear is that the knowledge has grown beyond ourcapacity as a society. When we talk about the uncontrollable explosionin the costs of health care in America, for instance—about the realitythat we in medicine are gradually bankrupting the country—we're...