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. Atul Gawande Read Quote
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 Read Quote
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal. Atul Gawande Read Quote
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. Atul Gawande Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt – the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems. Atul Gawande Read Quote
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. Atul Gawande Read Quote
I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You’d be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in. Atul Gawande Read Quote
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. Atul Gawande Read Quote
