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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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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The…
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I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
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Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
— Edward Hoagland
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A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone,…
— Jim Rohn
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.
— Pete Maravich
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We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.
— Roger Caras
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True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten…
— Andrew Weil
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The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
— Hugh Massingberd
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