Conscious Quote by Atul Gawande

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“..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

“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

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,

— Atul Gawande

“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

“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

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