We recruit for attitude and train for skill, - Atul Gawande

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do.

One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems — on assemblages of people or technologies or both — and among our most profound difficulties is making them work.

Courage, Laches responds, “is a certain endurance of the soul.