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Published · transcript-backedAtul Gawande: belief
19 Jul 2017 Conversations with Tyler Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
“The fact that he graduated from medical school, and then a year into his residency, left to do everything from directing movies like Coma to writing The Great Train Robbery, and then onward to Jurassic Park. But as a kind of influence on medical writing and on writing writ large, I think that his power is waning.”
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…Michael Crichton: doctor, Harvard, writer. What do you think? Where is he now? I would say he might be . . . I think he’d been overrated. I say this as someone who was totally inspired by Michael Crichton. The fact that he graduated from medical school, and then a year into his residency, left to do everything from directing movies like Coma to writing The Great Train Robbery, and then onward to Jurassic Park. But as a kind of influence on medical writing and on writing writ large, I think that his power is waning. His power is now . . . Well now, see, I’m switching from over to under . . . Now you’re sounding like underrated. Sphere is my favorite book of his. He was also a brilliant art collector. He bought a lot of Jasper Johns before other people . . .…
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