Quote by Atul Gawande Download Open image ““end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.”” — Atul Gawande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“The FDA will accept a certain level of risk for a new treatment that is to be applied to a group of very sick… — Jonathan Slack Copy Share Image
“Wondered about the experimental drugs interacting with airborne chemicals and leaving me unexpectedly dead.” — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
“Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will… — Sharon Moalem Copy Share Image
“Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!” — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he can to save… — Dr Cecil Vaughn Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed… — David Millar Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation. — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.” — Kenneth Eade 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
