Quotes About Surgery

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.

David's was the first face I saw when I woke up from the surgery to sew up my leg. Eve made a face. It was like a bad rerun. His face is always the first one I see when I wake up from an attack by a homicidal lunatic.

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten.

A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in the balance. He's rushed to the hospital and into surgery, but there's only one doctor there, and as soon as the doctor sees the boy, the doctor says, 'I can't operate on my own son!' How could this be, if the boy's father was killed in the crash?

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy.

I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't want it. I like it better this way. More comfortable.

Avoid surgery and anesthesia after recent MI

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

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.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.