Surgeons Quotes - Page 10

• Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

  Leonard Read

  Years, Skills, People

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• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  Artie Shaw

  Listening, Scalpels, Clarinet

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• I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

  Yasmin Paige

  Police, Stressed, Admire

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.

  Iris Apfel

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Beautiful, Years, Careers

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• Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

  James Nesbitt

  Thinking, Brain, Lasts

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• My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.

  Atul Gawande

  Commitment, Heart, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Father, Conclusion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Broken

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• [Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

  Maya Angelou

  Determination, Heart, Delight

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• When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Drinking, Mask, Pops

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Jobs, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Simple, Trying, Politician

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Skills, Brain, Migrants

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

  Vivek Murthy

  People, Doe, Misconception

  "Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.

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• When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Heroism, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Only funny line I've had was my first day on the set of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were making me up, and I saw the director call the makeup man over, and he says "What are we going to do about the hooter?" And the makeup guy said, "I'm not a plastic surgeon." So I started that show with a big nose, and quite conscious of it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Makeup, Men, Guy

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• Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

  Janice Kaplan

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult

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• My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.

  Daphne Oz

  Dad, Heart, Exercise

  Daphne Oz (2010). “The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  Samantha Power

  Ears, Concentration

  "Samantha Power delivers commencement at Occidental College, June 11, 2011" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

  Joseph Murray

  Doctors, Childhood, Quality

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• As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Heart, Giving, Lectures

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• I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.

  Heather Dubrow

  Real, May, Married

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Two, Doctors

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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