We recruit for attitude and train for skill..

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually ….

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure..

Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do an operation to s….

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact….

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes fr….

One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we have a limited understanding of the laws ….

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a doctor, decide….

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human….

When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available to us - whether it's geriatric care….

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part..

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps t….

My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act, wo….

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you..

The Affordable Care Act also offered protections that allow for preexisting conditions, as people know, that you're provided coverage and you can mai….

One of the consequences of if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, is that all of us now are at risk of being a preexisting - of having a preexisting….

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong..

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change..

Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. Wh….

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle..

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success ….