October 2012
1 post
July 2012
4 posts
“Sometimes being kind is not enough.”
June 2012
27 posts
“Your patient is dead; the family is gathered. And there is one last thing that...”
– Atul Gawande. Conplications.
“And like your lips were only made for me to kiss, oh oh oh… we were made...”
– Train, We Were Made for This.
“Maybe machines can decide, but we still need doctors to heal.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“Medical care is about life and dead, and we’ve always needed doctors to...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“Trust can only increase when mistakes are reduced.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“Patients feel like a number too often as it is.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“I asked Byrnes Shouldice, a son of the clinic’s founder and a hernia...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“It is all I can do not to take over. But she cannot learn without doing, I tell...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“It is painful enough taking responsibility for one’s own failure. Being...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“If choice cannot go to everyone, maybe it is better when it is not allowed at...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“… the physician’s dodge is inevitable. Learning must be stolen,...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“No matter how accomplished, surgeons trying something new got worse before they...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“So learning is hidden, behind drapes and anesthesia and the elisions of...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“With practice and more practice, I get the hang of it.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“At such moments, it is more than easy; it is beautiful.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“For days and days, you make out the only the fragments of what to do. And then...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“The most important talent maybe the talent for practice itself.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“Skills, surgeons believe, can be taught; tenacity cannot.”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through...”
– Atul Gawande, Complications.
“You’ve got to let go of who you are, to become who you will be.”
– White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via eunichick)
May 2012
25 posts
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“tôi yêu em rất dần dần
bớt yêu tôi để dành phần yêu em”
– Nguyễn Thế Hoàng Linh
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“sometimes I wish I could just sleep my troubles away.”
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“let’s fall in love like teenagers do!”
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“When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of...”
– (via eunichick)
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“And though I ransacked the pages of that book, never again did I find the...”
– H. D. Thoreau
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“We had been through a chapter together.”
– Audrey Young, MD. What Patients Taught Me.
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“Veni, Vidi, Vici”
– I came, I saw, I conquered
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“Semper Fidelis”
– Always Faithful
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“Per Angusta Ad Augusta”
– Through Trials to Triumphs
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“Amor Vincit Omnia”
– Love Conquers All 