Sublime

You can identify and prepare for what can go wrong and thus reduce your zone of uncertainty,

He penned an autobiographical tract that he called “Discourses on the Sober Life,”

Second, Medicine 3.0 considers the patient as a unique individual.

On December 14, 2004, he gave a speech to a room full of hospital administrators at a large industry convention. He said, “Here is what I think we should do. I think we should save 100,000 lives. And I think we should do that by June 14, 2006—18 months from today. Some is not a number; soon is not a time. Here’s the number: 100,000. Here’s the time

To Redelmeier the very idea that there was a great deal of uncertainty in medicine went largely unacknowledged by its authorities. There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error.

Modern cancer surgery someday will be regarded with the same kind of horror that we now regard the use of leeches in George Washington's time.” - Dr. Robert Mendelsohn “The disease always returns after removal, and operation only accelerates its growth and fatal termination.” - Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau, Surgeon (1795-1867) "I do not d

had picked up David Brooks’s book The Road to Character.

bridge the gap between randomized controlled trials,

In Medicine 3.0, our starting point is the honest assessment, and acceptance, of risk—including the risk of doing nothing.