"I could make a martyrly claim to having……" — Alice Dreger
"I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food."
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Alice Dreger
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22 Quotes by Alice Dreger
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they…
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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went…
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A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to…
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they…
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Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The…
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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went…
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As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and…
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Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy…
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I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy…
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My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions…
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When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your…
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Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the…
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