Any Quote by Atul Gawande

“Some time way back in the latter half of my internship, I gave up the idea of saving lives and became more comfortable with…

— Mikkael A. Sekeres

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

— John Armstrong

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

— Haile Gebrselassie

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm…

— Sheri Fink

“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

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.

— Proverb

In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but…

— Brendan Fehr

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

— Ricardo Lagos

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

— Laura Gilpin

“Real faith, however, is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process. As things unfold, sometimes in full view, let us be merciful…

— Neal A. Maxwell

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

— Jeannette Walls

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov