Quotes About Risk-aversion

I don't like to take risks or jump into things before I fully understand how they can benefit me or my situation.

The phenomenon of risk-aversion means that some patients whose lives might be saved by a risky operation are simply never operated upon. But there is also the reverse problem, that of overly aggressive care to meet metric targets. Patients whose operations are not successful may be kept alive for the requisite thirty days to improve their hospital's mortality data, a prolongation that is both costly and inhumane.

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.