I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — 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.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take… — 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
The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical… — 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
