Over the last year, and especially since we've launched this ArticleRec site, I've found The New Yorker's Annals of Medicine to be one of the most consistent repositories of amazingly interesting writing. This New York Times article quoted below shows Obama agreeing, and using Atul Gawande's words to actually guide policy.
“He came into the meeting with that article having affected his thinking dramatically,” said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon. “He, in effect, took that article and put it in front of a big group of senators and said, ‘This is what we’ve got to fix.’ ”
It's fascinating that politicians are reading the same stuff we are. It's both great to know we have a reader as a president, but also a little disappointing that my childish expectation that our government has all this secret information is total bologne.
It was really cool reading the NYTimes article having just read Gawande's piece a couple days ago myself. I love when that happens.
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