Best Atul Gawande Quotes
- We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… Aim
- Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness… All
- 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 it.… Ask
- We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work… Always Hope
- Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got… Becomes
- People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined… Accomplish
- No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to… Achieve
- 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 skill… Attention
- Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so. Fallible
- Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are. All
- This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. Done Something
- I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. Born
- My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. Operating
- The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using… Best
- I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. Clinician
- You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major… Complications
- I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about… Better
- Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is… Alive
- George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. Combination
- No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are… Cursive
- Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a… Fix
- Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. American
- There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage… Affairs
- The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. Agriculture
- No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about… Consider