Best-selling author recalls Athens roots. Atul Gawande has "happy" memories about Athens [View all]

Dr. Gawande grew up in Athens, Ohio which is in the Appalachian region of Ohio.

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"Gawande, 49, is a medical doctor of some renown. His father and mother were doctors, too.

"There was almost a presumption" that he would choose medicine as a career, said Gawande. "I grew up with my dad and mom getting patient calls… and I would go with them into the emergency room. I've been in and out of… O'Bleness Hospital all my life."

Gawande now lives in the Boston area where he works as a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and as a professor at Harvard University. He's also a writer and public-health researcher, with a wife and three children.

In his latest book, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience to the last breath, providing not only a good life but also a good end. It's backed up by considerable research as well as engrossing storytelling."

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