When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The brain gives us two ways to evaluate experiences like suffering—there is how we apprehend such experiences in the moment and how… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“In fact, he argued, human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
There are times when you have sharp elbows, and people are trying to muscle you out of certain meetings - because then… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“This time, she came back to Longwood House in a wheelchair and needed help with virtually all of her everyday activities—using the… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“I do not come in saying, ‘I’m so sorry.’ Instead, it’s: ‘I’m the hospice nurse, and here’s what I have to offer… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“Wilson spent several days camped out in one government office after another until she had secured an exemption. Unbelievably, she and her husband cleared… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“8. Chapter 4 describes the birth of the assisted-living facility concept (Park Place), designed by Keren Wilson to provide her disabled mother, Jessie, with… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“I cannot pretend he escaped unscathed. The extended period of low blood pressure damaged an optic nerve and left him essentially blind in one… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life, — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
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… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
“When Felix came to this crossroads, the orthopedic shoe to drop wasn’t his. It was Bella’s. Year by year, I witnessed the progression in… — Atul Gawande Copy Share
