All Alice Dreger Quotes
- 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… Animals
- 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… Age
- A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. Conjoined
- 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… Animals
- 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… Actually Reduce
- 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… Age
- 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… 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… Appointments
- 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… Advocacy
- 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,… 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… Been
- 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. Actually Takes
- 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. Agreement
- Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. Chosen
- 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… Attached
- To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it. Follow
- Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending… Brain
- 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… Appear
- 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,… Ask
- 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… American
- I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular. Find
- The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask… Anatomies