- Every Single Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hardcover
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020