Otis Brawley Quotes

#1. It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Ian McKellen

#2. People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

Mac Anderson

#3. When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.

Otis Webb Brawley

#4. There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

Stephen Fry

#5. A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

David Byrne

#6. Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don't call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

Otis Webb Brawley

#7. I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.

Clifton Cameron

#8. A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We

Atul Gawande

#9. I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

Trini Lopez

#10. I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Isabel Allende

#12. Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans - often rich Americans - consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

Otis Webb Brawley

#13. Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us
physicians, patients, and communities
to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

David Satcher