Frans van Houten Quotes

Radical surgery is never fun.

I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

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

Well, the Brazilian butt lifts are dangerous.

I've been operated on 13 times.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

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

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

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.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I've had a tummy tuck - we all know that.

We show some more complicated cases. We show problems with fillers that were injected into the nose and the complications that caused. We show dog bites to the nose and the face and the reconstruction. There are some interesting stories, but they're more of learning lessons.

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

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.