Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.

A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.

Alice Dreger Quotes