And In Stories, Endings Matter.

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.

We Always Hope For The Easy Fix: The One Simple Change That Will Erase A Problem In A Stroke. But Few Things In Life Work This Way. Instead, Success Requires Making A Hundred Small Steps Go Right - One After The Other, No Slipups, No Goofs, Everyone Pitching In.

I Learned About A Lot Of Things In Medical School, But Mortality Wasn't One Of Them.

One Of The Consequences Of If The Affordable Care Act Is Repealed, Is That All Of Us Now Are At Risk Of Being A Preexisting - Of Having A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen. Life, Increasingly, Is A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen, Now That We Have More And More Of This Data Available.

When I Do An Operation, It's Half A Dozen People. When It Goes Beautifully, It's Like A Symphony, With Everybody Playing Their Part.