Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I'm blind without my glasses.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

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.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

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.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

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.

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.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

I can't think without my glasses.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

iron surgeon

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

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

Without contacts, I'm almost blind.

I don't feel I can get used to my face wearing glasses... more than one pair of glasses, or any one pair until a cataclysmic, cosmic event causes me to get a new pair.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.