Atul Gawande
American surgeon, writer and public health researcher; general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, New Yorker writer, author of Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto.
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Their wordsScience is not a major or a career. It is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance to a way of building knowledge and explaining the universe through testing and factual observation.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsPseudoscience is the form of science without the substance.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe evidence is that rebutting bad science doesn’t work; in fact, it commonly backfires.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsRebutting bad science may not be effective, but asserting the true facts of good science is. And including the narrative that explains them is even better.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsKnowledge and the virtues of the scientific orientation live far more in the community than the individual.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsEven more than what you think, how you think matters.
↗The Mistrust of Science (Caltech commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThese are not the cause of their unease, however. They are symptoms of a deeper condition—which is the reality that medicine’s complexity has exceeded our individual capabilities as doctors.
↗Cowboys and Pit Crews (Harvard Medical School commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWe train, hire, and pay doctors to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews people need.
↗Cowboys and Pit Crews (Harvard Medical School commencement address, The New Yorker)newyorker.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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