“A bureaucrat,” she says, with familiar bitterness and personal knowledge, “is a man with a wife and four children being cussed out for living where he doesn’t want to live, at an increasing rate of ...

Atul Gawande has been a renowned surgeon, an award-winning magazine writer and author, a Rhodes scholar, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” and the CEO of a briefly ballyhooed health care ...