People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“..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 Image
“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 Image
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life, — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
