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Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.
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In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.
— Atul Gawande
We are not omniscient or all-powerful. Even enhanced by technology, our physical and mental powers are limited.
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In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible.
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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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Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet
— Atul Gawande
assisted living isn't really built for the sake of older people so much as for the sake of their children.
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I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
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This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
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The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society.
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We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.
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The third requirement for success is ingenuity - thinking
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If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.
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Medicine was just another a tool you could try, no different from a healing ritual or a family remedy and no more effective.
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The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.
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But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences,
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The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.
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That's how a doctor earns money, she told me. It's a war with insurance, every step of the way.
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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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Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
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As a person's end draws near, there comes a moment when responsibility shifts to someone else to decide what to do.
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Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock.
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The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters.
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Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.
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And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? In
— Atul Gawande
It seemed as if, once aging led to debility, it was impossible for anyone to be happy. *
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Percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics,
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I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
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And in stories, endings matter.
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If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.
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But the dismal finances of geriatrics are only a symptom of a deeper reality: people have not insisted on a change in priorities.
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People die only once. They have no experience to draw on.
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Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success.
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Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.
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We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us
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Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy - the freedom - to be the authors of our lives.
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They provided assisted living, but no one seemed to think it was their job to actually assist him with living
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Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have,
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This is normal. Although the processes can be slowed - diet and physical activity can make a difference - they cannot be stopped.
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Wisdom is prudent strength.
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When the prevailing fantasy is that we can be ageless, the geriatrician's uncomfortable demand is that we accept we are not.
— Atul Gawande
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
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A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We
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Living is a kind of skill.
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As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.
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When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
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Her arm. Her face sagged. Her speech slurred. Although
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The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun.
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This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
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In the face of the unknown - the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay -
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The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.
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The hardest question for anyone who takes responsibility for what he or she does is, What if I turn out to be average?
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The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.
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We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So
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If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.
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I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.
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The job of doctors is to supply up-to-date knowledge and skills. The job of patients is to supply the decisions.
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The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.
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