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Atul Gawande is a practising surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor at both the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He鈥檚 well known for his writing on medicine, and his research on medical error and performance. Amongst his other roles, he is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a global charity reducing unsafe surgery globally.

The fourth and final lecture, The Idea of Wellbeing, will argue that medicine must shift from a focus on health and survival to a focus on wellbeing - on protecting, insofar as possible, people鈥檚 abilities to pursue their highest priorities in life. And, as he will suggest from the story of his father鈥檚 life and death from cancer, those priorities are nearly always more complex than simply to live longer.

Photo: Dr Atul Gawande