Surgical Outcome Quotes

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

Janie’s hip buzzes again. Maybe she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That would really suck.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.