"As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems."

-- Atul Gawande

#Team Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Practice Quotes

“When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.”
“The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.”
“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
“Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.”
“Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.”
“We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think”
“So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another”

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