Quotes by Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfect — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wro — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an en — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their str — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and b — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unk — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible. — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imper — Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science