This is what it means to have autonomy - you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control… - Atul Gawande

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

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.