When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.
Atul GawandeYou know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
Atul GawandeThe striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.โฆThe only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.
Atul Gawande