Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.
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
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
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.
Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change. - Atul Gawande
Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.
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
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 …
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
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…
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 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…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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