Quotes by : Atul Gawande

You don’t have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often....

[We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable....

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

In 2008, the national Coping with Cancer project published a study showing that terminally ill cancer....

All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting....

In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones.....

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all,....

We are besieged by simple problems.... Checklists can provide protection

A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally....

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame:....