All Atul Gawande Quotes
- Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best… All
- We recruit for attitude and train for skill, Attitude
- Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They… All
- The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires… Annual
- The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we… Ability
- I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be. Chose
- What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can? Inspirational
- What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world? Alternative
- A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go… Admit
- You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared… Complicated
- Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work… Change
- Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork. Checklist
- At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their… According
- Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. Acceptance
- No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new… Able
- Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Coaching
- We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients… Certainty
- Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts… Aging
- I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. Learned
- And in stories, endings matter. Endings