"No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it."

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Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.74, Profile Books

Atul Gawande

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“What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.”
“The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.”
“Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.”
“At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.”
“Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.”
“The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse.”
“...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...”
“Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.1.

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