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“Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

tags: errors, medicine

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“If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.”
― Cooper Edens, If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow / Add One More Star to the Night

tags: frustration, love, peace

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“This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

tags: guilt, shame

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“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

tags: love, missing

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“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.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

tags: science

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