Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacri…

- Atul Gawande

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.

- Atul Gawande

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

- Atul Gawande

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 …

- Atul Gawande

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to…

- Atul Gawande

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changi…

- Atul Gawande

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to pr…

- Atul Gawande

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

- Atul Gawande

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…

- Atul Gawande