Gawande, still mum on plans for new health venture, pulls out of major health conference

If ever there was a celebrity in health care, it was Dr. Atul Gawande. He frequented the biggest stages in media and medicine. He gave TED talks, interviews with top journalists, and moderated a discussion on health innovation with President Obama. His books and essays for the New Yorker made him not just a sought-after speaker, but the unofficial leader of medicine’s less-is-more movement.