Medical Perspective Quotes

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.