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

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. — Atul Gawande

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications. — Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. — Atul Gawande

In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible. — Atul Gawande

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

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. — Atul Gawande

ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another. — Atul Gawande

human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually. — Atul Gawande

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days. — Atul Gawande

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande

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. — Atul Gawande

The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. — Atul Gawande

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world? — Atul Gawande

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change. — Atul Gawande

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib. — Atul Gawande

The risk of a fatal car crash with a driver who's eighty-five or older is more than three times higher than it is with a teenage driver. — Atul Gawande

Even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly. — Atul Gawande

Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you. — Atul Gawande

The third requirement for success is ingenuity - thinking — Atul Gawande

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible. — Atul Gawande

Medicine was just another a tool you could try, no different from a healing ritual or a family remedy and no more effective. — Atul Gawande

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play. — Atul Gawande

One has to decide whether one's fears or one's hopes are what should matter most. — Atul Gawande

It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said. — Atul Gawande

Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does. — Atul Gawande

But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, — Atul Gawande

The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer. — Atul Gawande

That's how a doctor earns money, she told me. It's a war with insurance, every step of the way. — Atul Gawande

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

Their attitude seemed to result from incomprehension rather than cruelty, but as Tolstoy would have said, what's the difference in the end? — Atul Gawande

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. — Atul Gawande

As a person's end draws near, there comes a moment when responsibility shifts to someone else to decide what to do. — Atul Gawande

Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock. — Atul Gawande

As we age, it's as if the calcium seeps out of our skeletons and into our tissues. — Atul Gawande

The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters. — Atul Gawande

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost. — Atul Gawande

Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist. — Atul Gawande

The biggest cause of serious error in this business is a failure of communication, — Atul Gawande

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

Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels. — Atul Gawande

It seemed as if, once aging led to debility, it was impossible for anyone to be happy. * — Atul Gawande

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change. — Atul Gawande

Percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics, — Atul Gawande

Mainstream doctors are turned off by geriatrics, and that's because they do not have the faculties to cope with the Old Crock," Felix Silverstone, — Atul Gawande

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be. — Atul Gawande

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

And in stories, endings matter. — Atul Gawande

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. — Atul Gawande

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure. — Atul Gawande

All human beings err, but they err frequently and in predictable, patterned ways. — Atul Gawande

But the dismal finances of geriatrics are only a symptom of a deeper reality: people have not insisted on a change in priorities. — Atul Gawande

People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. — Atul Gawande

Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty. — Atul Gawande

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. — Atul Gawande

Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. — Atul Gawande

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something. — Atul Gawande

need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you. — Atul Gawande

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so. — Atul Gawande

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us — Atul Gawande

Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy - the freedom - to be the authors of our lives. — Atul Gawande

They provided assisted living, but no one seemed to think it was their job to actually assist him with living — Atul Gawande

New technology also creates new occupations and requires new expertise, which further undermines the value of long experience and seasoned judgment. — Atul Gawande

accepted stoically, without fear or self-pity or hope for anything — Atul Gawande

Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have, — Atul Gawande

This is normal. Although the processes can be slowed - diet and physical activity can make a difference - they cannot be stopped. — Atul Gawande

Wisdom is prudent strength. — Atul Gawande

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. — Atul Gawande

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. — Atul Gawande

You know, there's this phase of people's lives in which they can't really cope on their own, and we ought to find a way to make it manageable. — Atul Gawande

A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We — Atul Gawande

In a fire, the metal can plasticize - lose its stiffness and bend like spaghetti. This was why the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, — Atul Gawande

Living is a kind of skill. — Atul Gawande

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande

If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it. — Atul Gawande

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it. — Atul Gawande

As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival. — Atul Gawande

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. — Atul Gawande

Her arm. Her face sagged. Her speech slurred. Although — Atul Gawande

The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun. — Atul Gawande

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal. — Atul Gawande

Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end. — Atul Gawande

In the face of the unknown - the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay - — Atul Gawande

The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer. — Atul Gawande

The hardest question for anyone who takes responsibility for what he or she does is, What if I turn out to be average? — Atul Gawande

The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness. — Atul Gawande

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So — Atul Gawande

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets. — Atul Gawande

So today, with our average life span in much of the world climbing past eighty years, we are already oddities living well beyond our appointed time. — Atul Gawande

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected. — Atul Gawande

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande

The job of doctors is to supply up-to-date knowledge and skills. The job of patients is to supply the decisions. — Atul Gawande

The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise. — Atul Gawande

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

Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time. — Atul Gawande

That the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; — Atul Gawande