"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Hubris: In this tragic story of the woman who had a mistaken mastectomy lies this strangest of all suggestions for avoiding medical errors:
Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University recommended that anyone who is very sick or faces a bad diagnosis should go to a regional medical center that is associated with a medical school.
"I advise my patients to go to the top place in the region," he said. "There's more scrutiny, there's more structure, there's more vigilance at the top medical centers."
