Quotes of: Surgeon Keyword

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctabl...

Magdi Yacoub

There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day surgeons are faced with uncertainties. Information is inadequate; the science is ambiguous; one's knowledge and ab...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Tender surgeons make foul wounds.

Dutch

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

French

There is no better surgeon than one with many scars.

Spanish

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.

Traditional

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration...

Richard Carmona

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

Magdi Yacoub

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Malcolm McDowell

The wounded are instruments, singing pain.

The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Richard Carmona

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Luke Bryan

Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: You know this boy? Orderly: Name is Cole, sir. He's a paper hanger. Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: Well, he's a dead paper hanger now.

Zulu

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.

Leaves From A Surgeon's Case-Book

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

The Beauty Myth