- 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
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flaw
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
- Elemental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heal
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
- Mantra
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020