Health care Quotes by Atul Gawande

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Atul Gawande’s concise notes blend clinical experience with a broader view of health‑care delivery, offering practical wisdom in a handful of sentences.

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Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and…

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Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

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Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps…

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In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

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There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not.…

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“The soaring cost of health care has become the greatest threat to the long-term solvency of most advanced nations, and the incurable…

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Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs…

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The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service.…

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No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models…

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“A decade earlier, her seventy-four-year-old father, Jack Block, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, was admitted…

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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…

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“Wilson spent several days camped out in one government office after another until she had secured an exemption. Unbelievably, she and her husband cleared…

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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…

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“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…

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When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew…

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

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“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,…

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“I cannot pretend he escaped unscathed. The extended period of low blood pressure damaged an optic nerve and left him essentially blind in one…

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The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

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“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…

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“we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.”

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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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