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Matt Mower • 1 card
transforming medicine from a healing-oriented moral practice into a diagnosis-oriented science focused on discernible, and replicable, test results.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
You’re taking too long. How much blood can a patient lose before death is imminent? When she didn’t reply, he all but shouted. How much blood? “Five pints.” Correct. And your blundering has cost her at least three. Dr. Seldon,
Amanda Skenandore • The Medicine Woman of Galveston
William James
Steven Schlafman • 1 card
You’re taking too long. How much blood can a patient lose before death is imminent? When she didn’t reply, he all but shouted. How much blood? “Five pints.” Correct. And your blundering has cost her at least three. Dr. Seldon,
Amanda Skenandore • The Medicine Woman of Galveston
We did little better than Ivan Ilyich’s primitive nineteenth-century doctors—worse, actually, given the new forms of physical torture we’d inflicted on our patient. It is enough to make you wonder, who are the primitive ones.
Excerpt From Being Mortal Atul Gawande