Atul Gawande citations (13 citations)

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“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 ask that we never cease to aim for it.”

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Atul Gawande livre Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.”

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“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

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Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”

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Atul Gawande livre Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”

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Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“We recruit for attitude and train for skill”

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“Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”

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Atul Gawande livre The Checklist Manifesto

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Culture has tremendous inertia,” he said. “That’s why it’s culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.”

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Atul Gawande livre Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End