Alice Dreger Quotes

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• Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small…
• After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought…
• A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
• Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small…
• Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we…
• After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought…
• As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all…
• Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these…
• I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of…
• My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples,…
• I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother…
• When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.
• Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.
• Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
• Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition…
• To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
• Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending…
• Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight…
• When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician,…
• Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring…

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