Surgeons Quotes - Page 9

• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Class, Should Have

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• 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

  Heart, Class, Brain

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• You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding.

  Jon Spaihts

  Fun, Real, Men

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• 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, as is done in the other uniformed services.

  Richard Carmona

  Careers, Political, Honor

  "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.

  Rachel McAdams

  Turkeys, Doctors, Brain

  Source: www.enzasbargains.com

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  Ezra Pound

  Cancer, Cutting, Knives

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• Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

  Gennifer Choldenko

  Heart, Hands, People

  Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “If A Tree Falls At Lunch Break”, p.131, A&C Black

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• I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

  Sid Watkins

  Race, Racing, Brain

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• Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

  Bill Hicks

  Cancer, Heart, Redneck

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• My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

  Robyn Carr

  Husband, Military, Pride

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• The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

  Lars Leksell

  Brain, Tasks, Tools

  Lars Leksell (1971). “Stereotaxis and Radiosurgery: An Operative System”

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• For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

  John Barrasso

  Cancer, Years, Medicine

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• I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Technology, Doctors, Cells

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Teeth, Matter

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• The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Special, India, Physicians

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• For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Brain, World, Difficult

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.

  Aaron Tippin

  Jobs, Hard Work, Hands

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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

  Malcolm McDowell

  Heart, People, Brain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Trying, Wire

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• I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Play, Age, Able

  "Elisabeth Shue: Shue Shines Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 2000.

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• I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

  Harvey Cushing

  Hands, Would Be

  Neurohypophysial Membrane From a Clinical Standpoint Yale University Press (1969)

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• You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Brain, Important

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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