"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and……" — Richard Dooling
"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel."
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Richard Dooling
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19 Quotes by Richard Dooling
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Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in…
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Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in…
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At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that…
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Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm…
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Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
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Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel…
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Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time,…
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As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with…
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As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that…
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I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came…
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I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know,…
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of…
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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
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