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team independent people
In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. Atul Gawande
three wells complication
You 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.
teamwork humility keys
Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key values we doctors are being pressed to embrace are humility, teamwork, and discipline.
team thinking medicine
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
technology thinking medicine
Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.
talking people way
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.
teamwork motivation inspiration
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
team practice doctors
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.
taken doctors perfection
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.
team recipes unexpected
You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.
trying doe genius
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.
truth would-be
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth. Aristotle
true-friend inspiration adversity
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
taken medicine doctors
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?
thinking self soul
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
thinking divinity excellent
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
time-management movement management
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
true-nature highest
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
teaching pay attention
Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
truth knowing causes
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
together citizens purpose
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.
teaching knowledge intellectual
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
true-friend taken character
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.
teacher children good-life
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
time facts action
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
thinking pleasure nicomachean-ethics
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
two soul body
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
trying doing-nothing way
Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
two soul body
A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
thinking elements firsts
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
taken may speech
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
true-friend character people
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
thinking ability
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.