In his book Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande briefly discusses paraskevidekatriaphobia as part of a section on superstitions and fears. What is it?
a. Fear of paramedics
b. Fear of Friday the thirteenth
c. Fear of syringes
d. Fear of having to pronounce really long words
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a. Fear of paramedics
b. Fear of Friday the thirteenth
c. Fear of syringes
d. Fear of having to pronounce really long words
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Atul Gawande
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Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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"better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try."
— Atul Gawande (Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance)
— Atul Gawande (Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance)
"We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do."
— Atul Gawande (Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science)
— Atul Gawande (Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science)
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"Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going."
— Atul Gawande
— Atul Gawande
