Joaquin Costa Quotes

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

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 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.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

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

There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I have no medical knowledge whatsoever so playing a surgeon on 'Holby' has been a real eye opener!

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.

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

Radical surgery is never fun.

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

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

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.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

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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'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

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.'

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.

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.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.