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“You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
“The operating is the easy part, you know,’ he said. ‘By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
“Every intern makes mistakes. The important thing is neither to make the same mistakes twice nor to make a whole bunch of mistakes all at once.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
“We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.”
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
“The M & M sees avoiding error as largely a matter of will—of staying sufficiently informed and alert to anticipate the myriad ways that things can go wrong and then trying to head off each potential problem before it happens. It isn't damnable that an error occurs, but there is some shame to it. In fact, the M & M's ethos can seem paradoxical. On the one hand, it reinforces the very American idea that error is intolerable. On the other hand, the very existence of the M & M, its place on the weekly schedule, amounts to an acknowledgement that mistakes are an inevitable part of medicine.”
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
― Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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