Quotes by Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you’ll find, isn’t about willingness to take risks. It’s about mastery of rescue.

Differences

Risk

Triumph

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

Doctors

Mistake

Villain

Arriving at an acceptance of one’s mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Acceptance

Arriving

Epiphany

At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn’t.

Caring

Differences

Medicine

Checklists turn out…to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction – in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Brain

Engineering

Risk

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Coaching

Done

May

Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key values we doctors are being pressed to embrace are humility, teamwork, and discipline.

Humility

Keys

Teamwork

Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that’s part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

Effort

Skills

Struggle

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Expertise

Medicine

Modern

I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But I also spoke with scores of physicians, and especially geriatricians, palliative care doctors, hospice nurses, and nursing home workers. The biggest thing I found was that when these clinicians were at their best, they were recognizing that people had priorities besides merely living longer. The most important and reliable way that we can understand what people’s priorities are, besides just living longer, is to simply ask. And we don’t ask.

Home

Nurse

Nursing

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Acceptance

Aging

Alternatives

Arriving

Attitude

Baseball

Battle

Blood

Brain

Broken

Care

Caring

Choices

Circumstances

Coaching

Comfort

Commitment

Complication

Conversation

Degrees

Differences

Doctors

Dollars

Done

Dying

Effort

Engineering

Epiphany

Experiments

Expertise

Failing

Fall

Father

Fire

Guilt

Heart

Home

Humility

Ideas

Independent

Inspiration

Integrity

Keys

Life Is

May

Mean

Meaningful

Medical

Medicine

Mistake

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Quotes by Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

Arriving at an acceptance of one’s mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn’t.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key values we doctors are being pressed to embrace are humility, teamwork, and discipline.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

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