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In case you didn’t get through the healthcare economics article from the New Yorker I mentioned a few weeks ago, The New Yorker posted a commencement speech by the article’s author, Atul Gawande, that succinctly hits on the salient points. (It also includes some points from his latest book, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance