Surgeons Quotes - Page 2

• Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Cutting, Causes

  Herbert M. Shelton (1996). “Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review”, p.13, Health Research Books

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• The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

  Ernest Gaines

  Heart, Artist, Blood

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Wise, People, Sick

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Family, Beauty

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• I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

  Winston Churchill

  Average, Brain, Three

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• Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, People, Underestimate

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• Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.

  Victor Chang

  Wisdom, Two, Giving

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• An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Teacher, Cutting, Persons

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• I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love, Change, Truth

  "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.

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• My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

  Darynda Jones

  Errors, Warning, Tacos

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.53, Macmillan

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• I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

  David Ogilvy

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.

  Tea Obreht

  Running, Children, Lying

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

  Philip Yancey

  Hurt, Pain, Sorrow

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.149, Zondervan

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• Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

  Tia Carrere

  Lasts, Plastic, Minutes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Teacher, Hurt

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• You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Fda, Office

  "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Ruchel Louis Coetzee, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Astley Cooper

  Mistake, Eye, Science

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• Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dream, Passion, Adventure

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• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Stupid, Intelligent, Medicine

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• At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

  Jessica Biel

  Taken, Doctors, Blood

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• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  Babe Ruth

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

  Neal Shusterman

  Worry, Feels, Chests

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.

  Gary Null

  Cancer, Numbers, Physicians

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Nice, Character, Ethnicity

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• Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

  C. Everett Koop

  Life, Mother, Baby

  "‘Yes to Life! No to Abortion!’ Tens of Thousands March Against Abortion in Spain" by Heather Clark, christiannews.net. November 23, 2014.

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