The Bell Curve Dr. Warwick has made a study of what it takes to do better than everyone else. He will be missed by the CF Community! What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? BY ATUL GAWANDE Every illness is a story, and Annie Page’s began with the kinds of small, unexceptional details that mean nothing until seen in hindsight. Like the fact that, when she was a baby, her father sometimes called her Little Potato Chip, because her skin tasted salty when he kissed her. Or that Annie’s mother noticed that her breathing was sometimes a little wheezy, though the pediatrician heard nothing through his stethoscope.Read More from the New Yorker December 2004...
