Medical Challenge Quotes

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

We must remember that coronavirus is a new disease, which presents new challenges.

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.