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One Of The Reasons People Might Be Fallible, Why We Might Fail To Do What We Try To Do Isignorance, That We Have A Limited Understanding Of The Laws Of The World - The Physical Laws That Govern The World And Of All The Particulars Of The World Upon Which Those Laws Work. And Then There's Ineptitude, Meaning That The Knowledge Is Available, But Individuals Fail To Apply It Correctly. The Third Source Is "necessary Fallibility." That Is, We're Never Going To Be Omniscient, There Is Some Knowledge That We Will Simply Never Achieve, And There Are Limits To What We Will Be Able To Do.

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.

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No Travel Ban Or Quarantine Will Seal A Country Completely. Even If Travel Could Be Reduced By Eighty Per Cent-itself A Feat-models Predict That New Transmissions Would Be Delayed Only A Few Weeks. Worse, It Would Only Drive An Increase In The Number Of Cases At The Source. Health-care Workers Who Have Fallen Ill Would Not Be Able To Get Out For Treatment, And The International Health Personnel Needed To Quell The Outbreak Would No Longer Be Able To Go In.

In Every Industrialized Nation, The Movement To Reform Health Care Has Begun With Stories About Cruelty.