“I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.” Quote by Naoko Mori
“The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.” PeopleMeanSometimesAbleDyingChangedIncludingDefinitionsGood Day Author:Atul Gawande
“In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.” PeopleStudyTeamIndependentHospitalsOld PeopleGeriatrics Author:Atul Gawande
“I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.” WritingImportantSeemsSchoolPiecesMagazinesGraduatesGraduate School Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.” PeopleIfsImportantCertainDiesFallLevelsBreakRiskBloodPressureHipsFrailtyBlood PressureHigh RiskMammograms Author:Atul Gawande
“If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.” PeopleIfsYearsWould BeLastsAbilityStreetsLast YearShoutingDefibrillators Author:Atul Gawande
“These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.” PeopleHelpingHomeRoomsAchieveFolksHospitalsFulfillingEmergenciesNursingFulfilling LifeNursing HomeEmergency Room Author:Atul Gawande
“The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.” PeopleCasesEvidenceHospice Author:Atul Gawande
“I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.” ThinkingBelieveActressesDramaticComedic Author:Taraji P. Henson
“You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.” NextLaughingIssuesCryOne DayNext Day Author:Taraji P. Henson
“As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.” WritingPlayWantedFilmNovelCollegeTheaterTeenager Author:Richard Linklater