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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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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when…
— Nelson Goodman
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost…
— Joseph Addison
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If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely…
— Richard Heinberg
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We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment…
— Ben Chifley
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
— Nelson Goodman
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We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.
— Shinzo Abe
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We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is…
— August Bebel
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It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at…
— Julian Casablancas
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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
— Andre Gide
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are…
— Dario Fo
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To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance -…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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