"We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us"

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Source : "Atul Gawande: 'We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

Atul Gawande

#Aging Quotes #Failing Quotes #Experiments Quotes

“I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.”
“Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble”
“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”
“The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.”
“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.”
“A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.”
“Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”
“The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.”

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