"U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week."

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Source : "How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us". www.wsj.com. September 21, 2012.

Marty Makary

#Body Quotes #Week Quotes #Surgeons Quotes

“Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.”
“I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.”
“Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.”
“We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of Heaven, Son of Righteousness and the Kingdom of Heaven into our hearts, and have made the Heavenly City our Home!”
“The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.”
“Art is significant deformity.”

Source : Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)
“It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.”
“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”

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