Surgeons Quotes

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? Or what old ones have they advanced? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? Who drinks out of American glasses? Or eats from American plates? Or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets? Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture?

The best surgeon, like best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement.

Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

There is the utmost order & contentment in their [the British] hospitals. The wounded whom we brought off from the field were not half so well treated as those whom we left in General Howe's hands. Our Officers and Soldiers spoke with gratitude and affection of their Surgeons. An orderly man was allotted to every ten of our wounded, and British Officers called every morning upon our officers to know whether their Surgeons did their duty.

Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.

Do you really want to pay for surgeon’s salaries by not having low-income people not be able to afford health insurance?

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.