Atul Gawande Quotes
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.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.
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I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
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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.
