Aminatta Forna Quotes

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.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

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

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced 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.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

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.'

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

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

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

My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny stories from the hospital. It was funny to me when I'd go over to other people's houses and they didn't talk about intestines at the table.

I am dying to play the role of a surgeon and if there is a medical series on TV, I would love to do it.

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

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

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

iron surgeon

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

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.