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We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
~ Atul Gawande
Anyone
Better
Era
Live
Narrow
Now
Practice
Taken
Than
Thing
Time
Until
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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.
~ Atul Gawande
Beautifully
Dozen
Everybody
Goes
Half
Like
Operation
Part
People
Playing
Symphony
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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.
~ Atul Gawande
Come
Complications
Everything
Goes
Hospital
Know
Major
Percent
Three
Time
Well
You
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You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
~ Atul Gawande
Admit
Because
Ensure
Failure
Fire
Moral
Never
Our
People
Percent
Physical
Practise
Right
Skills
Surgical
Time
Want
You
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Admiration
Array
Awe
Biological
Biologists
Cell
Complex
Contemplate
Evolved
Highly
Immune
Interactions
Model
Must
Organisms
Other
Similarly
Sophisticated
System
Systems
T
Which
Wondrous
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Because
Chair
Dean
Eager
Enthusiastic
Environment
Fellows
Harvard
Interaction
Me
Medical
Medical School
Minds
Missed
More
Moved
Offered
Particularly
Pathology
Robert
School
Stimulating
Students
University
Young
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Allergic
Asthma
Child
Curiosity
Days
Deep
Developed
Directed
Had
Interest
Mechanism
Medical
Particularly
Phenomena
Student
Suffered
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Education
French
Had
Influence
Lasting
Life
My Life
Primary
Secondary
Secondary Education
Which
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Advances
Biology
Concerning
Genetics
Made
May
Methodology
Molecular
Most
Our
Phenomena
Same
Significant
Some
Statement
Understanding
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Approach
Biological
Control
Detailed
Determine
Exert
Genes
Identification
Mechanism
Most
Phenomena
Processes
Proven
Study
Successful
Understanding
Which
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The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
Avoiding
Capacity
Contact
Evolved
Foreign
Had
Immune
Individuals
Large
Large Number
Molecules
Naturally
Number
Other
Previous
React
Same
Species
Specifically
System
Very
Which
While
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
American
American Citizen
Army
Citizen
College
Drafted
Enjoyed
Greatly
Medical
Medical School
Oriented
Other
Part
Program
School
Students
Studies
Training
Very
Virginia
Wartime
Were
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
~ Barbara Block
Covered
Explored
Gorgeous
Human
Made
Mars
Mysterious
Oceans
Our
Own
Pictures
Places
Planet
Still
Technology
Two-Thirds
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
~ Barbara Block
Being
Biology
Classes
I Remember
Physics
Physiology
Remember
Strong
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
~ Barbara Block
Becoming
Enormous
Gave
I Think
Master
Me
Nature
Opportunities
Parents
Product
Scientist
Think
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
~ Barbara Block
Because
Being
Driven
Eat
Extinction
Flesh
People
Sharks
Want
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
~ Barbara Block
Africa
Before
Equivalent
Hot
Journeys
Just
Marine
Migration
Miles
Place
Plain
Return
Returning
Salmon
Same
Sharks
Spot
Stream
Take
Thousands
Travel
Tuna
White
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
~ Bennet Omalu
After
Any
Brain
Brain Damage
Child
Damage
Documented
Evidence
Football
Functional
Game
His
Months
Plays
Psychological
Season
Several
Sophisticated
Subject
Testing
Who
Without
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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
~ Bennet Omalu
Actually
Away
Enhances
Football
Intelligent
Rather
Steals
Than
Us
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All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
~ Bennet Omalu
Brain
Brain Damage
Changes
Damage
Did
Examined
NFL
Players
Seen
System
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