The Affordable Care Act also offered protections that allow for preexisting conditions, as people know, that you're provided coverage and you can maintain steady coverage. And that's an important part of being able to stay in care and do better over the long run.
Atul GawandeIn every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
Atul GawandeJust using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
Atul GawandeA failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.
Atul Gawande