Bob Hope Quotes

I recently had double-bypass surgery. As they wheel you in, the doctor always gives you a last look. You know that look. That look of confidence to make you feel good. I always say to every doctor, If I don't make it, I'll never know it.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

I had heart surgery when I was 17.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.

A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.

While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

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.