Atul Gawande Quotes - Page 2

• Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

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  Practice, One Day, Way

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.21, Profile Books

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• Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.

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  Baseball, Team, Teaching

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• As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

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  Team, Doctors, Practice

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• Aprendí muchas cosas en la facultad de medicina, pero la mortalidad no era una de ellas.

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  School, Medical, Mortality

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.7, Metropolitan Books

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• Sin embargo, las posibilidades y probabilidades son todo lo que tenemos para trabajar en medicina. Lo que nos atrae de esta ciencia imperfecta, lo que de hecho codiciamos a nuestra manera, es el momento alterable, la frágil pero cristalina oportunidad de que nuestros conocimientos, nuestra capacidad o simplemente nuestro instinto cambien a mejor el curso de la vida de otra persona.

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  Oportunidad, Medicina, Camino

  Atul Gawande (2010). "Complicaciones: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science", p.251, Profile Books

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• My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.

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  Commitment, Heart, Son

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

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  Aging, Failing, Experiments

  "Atul Gawande: 'We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Y en las historias, los finales importan.

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  Historias, Materia

  Atul Gawande (2014). "Ser mortal: Enfermedad, medicina y lo que importa al final", p.162, Profile Books.

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• Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Intentar

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• We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

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  Winning, Dollars, Tickets

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books

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• In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

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  Reform, Stories, Movement

  "Annals of Public Policy" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• We recruit for attitude and train for skill.

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  Attitude, Skills, Recruit

  "The Hot Spotters" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• 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.

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  School, Thinking, Medical

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• Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

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  Writing, Thinking, Degrees

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.256, Profile Books

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• Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.

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  Hands, Difficult Situations, Missing

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right”, p.120, Profile Books

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• La gente subestima la importancia de la diligencia como virtud. Sin duda tiene algo que ver con lo sumamente mundana que parece. Se define como "el esfuerzo constante y sincero para lograr lo que se emprende"... Entendida, sin embargo, como el prerrequisito de un gran logro, la diligencia se erige como uno de los retos más difíciles a los que se enfrenta cualquier grupo de personas que asuma tareas de riesgo y consecuencia. Establece una expectativa elevada, aparentemente imposible, para el rendimiento y el comportamiento humano.

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  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

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  Running, Government, Organization

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.37, Profile Books

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• Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

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  Struggle, Ideas, Priorities

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

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  Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration

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• One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we have a limited understanding of the laws of the world - the physical laws that govern the world and of all the particulars of the world upon which those laws work. And then there's ineptitude, meaning that the knowledge is available, but individuals fail to apply it correctly. The third source is "necessary fallibility." That is, we're never going to be omniscient, there is some knowledge that we will simply never achieve, and there are limits to what we will be able to do.

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  Gente, Comprender, Intentar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

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  Teamwork, Humility, Keys

  "Ask the Author Live: Atul Gawande on Medical Costs". The New Yorker LIve Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 14, 2011.

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

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  Mistake, Doctors, Villain

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.106, Profile Books

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.

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  Fall, Blood, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.

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  Motivación, Inspiración, Tecnología

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