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During an episode of the TED Radio Hour, Atul Gawande, M.D., Harvard surgeon and famed author of The Checklist Manifesto, was once asked what the biggest problem in our healthcare system was. The soon-to-be-appointed CEO of the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health venture had a ready answer:

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA

    Hochang Benjamin Lee

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  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Mark A. Oldham

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    Hochang Benjamin Lee

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Lee, H.B. (2019). Introduction. In: Zimbrean, P., Oldham, M., Lee, H. (eds) Perioperative Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99774-2_1

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