Helplessness Quote by Atul Gawande Download Open image ““Tears wet my eyes. I’m a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve this?”” — Atul Gawande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helplessness Surgery
“The problem is, first take your eyes off the problem and focus on a solution.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.” — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
“I had to become a patient. And I had to make up my mind quickly before the unthinkable happened. So I went under the knife. And I surrendered, knowing surgery can fail, no matter how hard we wish it to succeed. If surgery could end well - without risk - then it wouldn't be surgery as we know it. Without… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share
“Crying's okay while it lasts, but you can only do it for so long. And it's weird to do it when you apparently can't… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“It seems like the more my body healed, the more fractured my mind became, and there aren't enough wires and screws to fix he… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“What if no one can fix me?” “You don’t need fixing.” He gives a sad smile and wipes a tear away with his thumb.… — Lexi Ryan 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
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
“If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your… — Seth Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that seems to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
