The 83+ Atul Gawande Quotes

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.

When [disease] Can't Be Stopped, That's Where We Become Lost.

If The Conversation People Think Is Coming Is The 'death Panel' Conversation, That's A Total Failure.

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.

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.

This Is The Reality Of Intensive Care: At Any Point, We Are As Apt To Harm As We Are To Heal.

In One Study, Old People Assigned To A Geriatrics Team Stayed Independent For Far Longer, And Were Admitted To The Hospital Less.

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.

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.

If We Took Away The Ability To Put Defibrillators In People In Their Last Years, People Would Be Shouting In The Streets.

We Now Have 30 Percent, For Example, Of Medicare Patients Who Are Seeing Doctors Who Are Rewarded For Doing This Kind Of Work, Like High Blood Pressure Control. So, The Affordable Care Act Has Pushed This Direction Down The Road.

My Biggest Fear, That 27 Percent Of Americans Under 65 Have An Existing Health Condition That, Without The Protections Of The Affordable Care Act, Would Mean They Would - Could Be Automatically Excluded From Insurance Coverage. Before The Aca, They Wouldn't Have Been Able To Get Insurance Coverage On The Individual Market, You Know, If You're A Freelancer Or If You Had A Small Business Or The Like.