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...Because when you involve love in the decision, the stakes become so much higher emotionally. When marriage is a legal contract like that, it's a business deal - and everybody knows it's a business deal. It's kind of like ending up with a bad boss; you can learn how to deal with it. People just have far more choices than they ever had. And that has both complicated and weakened and made more interesting the institution of marriage. Anybody who thinks that we're going to return to some sort of more tribal, feudal version of building marriages...
...equip people who are about to be doctors for the idea that they're going to fail and that they have a responsibility to build a plan for that understanding. We don't prepare people for the idea that you really work in teams nowadays. [In medical school] you learn the physiology of the body. And then you learn the diagnoses and the treatments. You could get all of those first steps right and your patient will still die. Because you weren't able to get the radiologist and the nurse and the rest of your team working in sync...
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...consider this: if hard-core addicts can break bad habits - some by moderating, not just quitting - there's still hope for you. Whether your goal for 2010 is to get fit or tame your drinking, experts say there's a lot you can learn from people who have successfully moderated their habits to help keep you off the resolution merry-go-round...
...much - and stick to their limit, no matter what. Have a cookie a day if that's what you've deemed acceptable. But if you cheat by having "just one more," know that you are only cheating yourself and exacerbating the problem, experts say. The point is to learn how to hold yourself accountable...