Word: imperfectible
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...work out why medicine remains with so many imperfections,” Gawande says, “what we can do to make them better, and what the experience is like of both practicing medicine and being someone who has to be cured for by a system that will always be imperfect...
...book “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” was a finalist for the National Book Award...
With seven new faces in this year’s varsity boat, it appeared that most of that No. 1 had graduated in 2004. This year, Harvard was supposed to be imperfect. This year, the legend of the Crimson heavyweights should have been mentioned only in the past tense...
...technology came along--recombinant DNA, for example--the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would set the scientific and ethical standards for research. But with embryonic stem cells (ESCs), the NIH has been hamstrung by President Bush's 2001 order allowing it to fund only research using the limited and imperfect cell lines already in existence--not exactly cutting-edge science. Relegated to a minor role in the field, the NIH thus has not done its usual job of defining the field's perimeters. To the relief of researchers, the National Academy of Sciences stepped in last week with...
...survive and endure in spite of that handicap. The handicap will not disappear. It only remains to be seen if we will disappear, or if, by an effort of will and judgment, we can make our handicap work in our favor, never pretending that we are anything but imperfect, yet also understanding that imperfection is a state of grace, a gift tied directly to a perception of common humanity...