Stuff I've read lately

That was worth reading.

Yet another valuable Atul-Gawande-penned _New Yorker_ article contributing to the body of knowledge on healthcare dollars & how and where they're spent:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_gawande


Thoughts on obstacles to evidence-based practice in medicine:

http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/why-is-medicine-often-not-evidence-based


And I finally read Abraham Verghese's _Cutting for Stone_. Lovely, mostly believable paean to medicine and surgery despite a maddeningly 2-dimensional female foil whose only existence is to let the protagonist's destiny unfold as needed in the book.