Atul Gawande Quotes & Sayings

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39 most famous Atul Gawande quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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 depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.”
“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 next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.”
“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, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.”
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“Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.”
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“I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.”
“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 than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.”
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“The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.”
“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 slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.”
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“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 true.”
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“Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.”

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