"Having great components is not enough, and yet……" — Atul Gawande
"Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together."
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58 Quotes by Atul Gawande
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