JulieSackett

“The greatest challenge of science, its art, lies in asking an important question and framing it in a way that allows it to be broken into manageable pieces, into experiments that can be conducted that ultimately lead to answers. To do this requires a certain kind of genius, one that probes vertically and sees horizontally.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
― Paul Farmer

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“There is a widespread belief that Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers cause profuse and irreversible bleeding in the humans they afflict. This is only rarely the case. So why has this belief taken hold?”
― Paul Farmer, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History