Gawande named to lead health care company for Amazon, JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway
Gawande named to lead health care company for Amazon, JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway
Earlier this year, corporate titans Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon announced they would team up to form a new health care company. Their mission: Improve health and save a few bucks for the 1 million people who work for Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. Today we learned that Atul Gawande will lead this still-to-be-named venture. Gawande is an accomplished surgeon, a Harvard professor, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a best-selling author.
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