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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 39 quotes by Atul Gawande Atul Gawande MD, MPH, is an American surgeon, author, and public health researcher. He is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor in both the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In his work in public health, he is Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation and also... Read full biography of Atul Gawande → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each... → 0 The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain... → 0 Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. 0 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, rather... → 0 The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. 0 Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just... → 0 I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is... → 0 Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in... → 0 If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and... → 0 No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for... → 0 No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You... → 0 To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the... → 0 I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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39 quotes by Atul Gawande