"The battle of being mortal is the battle……" — Atul Gawande
"The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,"
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58 Quotes by Atul Gawande
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Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs,…
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We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
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Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in…
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments…
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in…
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I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted…
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What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?
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What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
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A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will…
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You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to…
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Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and…
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Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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