Joseph Murray Quotes

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

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

I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it's very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

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.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

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.

I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.

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.

The image that comes to mind when I think of 'Nip/Tuck,' is I literally picture a nail just getting driven through wood. You know what I mean? Just getting absolutely bashed through a two by four.

All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

Medicine has always been my calling.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.