In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis… — 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
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patient; it's how to keep good physicians from harming patients. Medical… — 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
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
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system… — 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
