Osama

“doctors need to understand that we are businessmen—nothing less, nothing more—and the sooner we accept this the better.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded. In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“It used to be ‘Two hip replacements today—yay!’” he recalled. “Then it became ‘Two hip replacements today—ugh.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives—everyone dies eventually—but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air