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Doctors Quotes by Atul Gawande
- Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
- As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals,…
- 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…
- Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.
- 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…
- Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the…
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- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the… — Tom Baker
- But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go… — Christian Bale
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate… — Kate Beckinsale
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — Donald Berwick
- You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. — Gordon Bethune
- When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully… — Hugo Black
- Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? — Aeschylus