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Joshua D. Mezrich
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“the dumbest kidney is smarter than the smartest doctor.”
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
“When we put a new liver in her, this simply reset the clock. It didn’t do anything to treat her disease. In some ways, this is a microcosm of how our whole health care system works. We celebrate, and pay for, the big, sexy interventions—the operation, the cardiac catheterization, the heroic treatment that is technically challenging and potentially risky. But what really matters, and yet what our health care system doesn’t prioritize, is the day-to-day caring for chronic disease, the incremental, preventative care that can avert transplant altogether. Alcoholism is never actually cured. It can be managed, it can go into remission, but it is always there.”
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
“Again, everything needs to be perfect. It doesn’t matter how tired or distracted you are, how many things might be going on with other patients or with your boss or your lab or in your personal life. It needs to be perfect. Otherwise, the patient will pay a huge price, the donor won’t have given the gift of life, and you will be woken in the middle of the night by a shrill pager letting you know you’ve screwed up, it is your fault, and now you have to deal with it. That’s a kidney transplant. No big deal, but one of the best things we do in health care.”
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
― When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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