Atul Gawande Quotes - Page 4

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• In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Independent, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

  Atul Gawande

  Outsiders, Firsts, Poor

  "Medical Report" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

  Atul Gawande

  Three, Wells, Complication

  "Atul Gawande on Medicine's Promise and Limits". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. May 2, 2007.

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• This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

  Atul Gawande

  Reality, Care, Harm

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”, p.28, Macmillan

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• When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

  Atul Gawande

  Father, Together, Care

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

  Atul Gawande

  Thinking, People, Conversation

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

  Atul Gawande

  Disease, Lost

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• If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

  Atul Gawande

  Long, People, Brain

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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