Medical Procedures Quotes

What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!

I'm scared of needles.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

I've had, like, 10 surgeries in my life: four or so on my knee, my hip and my nose a couple of times.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.

I've had 10 major operations. Four back surgeries. A hip replacement. A broken neck... But I consider myself lucky. I keep thinking after all these surgeries, my luck is going to run out.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

I had open heart surgery, exploratory surgery in my stomach, bilateral chest tubes... all this stuff.

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

I'm not afraid of needles.

I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

I'm scared of injections and needles.

Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.

I've been operated on 13 times.