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
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not.… — 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
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have… — 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
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
The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — 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
