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In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

~Atul Gawande

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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 must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

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Topics: About Consider Covered How Medical Medical School Moment Money Must Patient Practicing School Start Teaches Think You

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I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: About Better Despite Even Faced Failures Hard Make Malpractice Mean Medicine Our Reality System Talk Them Things Think Willing I Think

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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.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Amount Building Care Coordination Equipment Expensive Experts Health Health Care House Huge Huge Amount Like Materials Providing Requires Task

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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.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Attack Awesome Been Blood Body Bombing Brain Burning Burst Colon Conditions Crushing Damage Days Fatal Had Heart Horrible Human Human Body Infection Massive Once Survive Vessel

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The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Between Concept Connection Hold Image Love Memorable Micro Moment People Smell Something Together Weaving Whole Writing I Love

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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.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Because Better Cool Finding Getting Getting Better Hard Ideas Problems Something Things Thinking Through Understand Way Write I Write

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People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

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Topics: Doctor Equipment Expensive Make Medical Money Most Order Pen People People Say Piece Say

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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 writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.

~Atul Gawande

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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.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Agriculture American Answers Front History Knowing Master Master Plan Plan The History Of Transformation Up Without You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 5th, 1965

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