Elena Anaya Quotes

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

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.

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

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

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.

Radical surgery is never fun.

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've been operated on 13 times.

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

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.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.