"We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence."

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Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.164, Macmillan

Robert A. Burton

#Ideas Quotes #Differences Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.”
“Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“This is my fault. Give me the ball.”
“I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press
“If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.”
“Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.”
“I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.”

Source : "Kiefer Sutherland Talks Touch Season 1" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2012.
“I feel I can fit with any player in the world.”

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