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Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best…
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We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
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Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most…
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to…
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect…
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I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
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What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?
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What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
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A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit…
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You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a…
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Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…
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Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
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As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
— Antonio Banderas
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…
— Carl Sagan
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering…
— David Walker
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A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it…
— Truman Capote
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Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food…
— Erma Bombeck
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Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.
— Kevin Hearne
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The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that…
— Atul Gawande
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