14th Annual Jonathan J. King Lectureship

STANFORD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

THE 14TH ANNUAL JONATHAN J. KING LECTURESHIP

Tuesday October 12, 2004

Fairchild Auditorium

5:00 — 6:00 PM

On the Ethics of Erring

Atul Gawande, M.D.

Author, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Dr. Atul Gawande is a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. As both a practicing surgeon and an accomplished writer and speaker, he offers audiences an unprecedented look into the heart and soul of medicine. His best-selling book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, features fourteen essays written for The New Yorker, where he is a staff writer on medicine and science. Dr. Gawande's lecture will provide an examination of our fallibility in medicine - its nature, its ubiquity and its moral difficulties.

The 14th Annual Jonathan J. King Lectureship will be presented from 5:00 to 6:00 pm in Fairchild Auditorium. Please contact the Center for Biomedical Ethics at 650-723-5760 for further information or visit our website at http://scbe.stanford.edu.