Quotes About Surgery

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Mother put it like this: "Besides taking out my misplaced appendix, he put all my other insides just where they should have been.

I'm watching an operation, I told her. It's to do with the pancreas. It's amazing, Madame. The surgeon is removing something called the tail. It's a complex and delicate operation, but the surgeon makes it look so easy. He's using all sorts of tools and he's so quick and precise. But what I keep wondering is, could Artificial Friends learn to do things like this themselves?

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

Like many young doctors, I had received virtually no instruction in nutrition. Then, as now, medical schools focused almost exclusively on drugs and surgery, even though lifestyle causes most cases of heart disease and other chronic disabling conditions. In

Mr Erstwhile was found lying on the floor of his surgery in a huge pool of blood. The dental probe was embedded deep in his heart…

ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

There's a less than one percent chance of a vasectomy failing, but it does happen. And you know there were complications . . ." "Please don't talk about the complications.

Îl implora întruna pe Dumnezeu:"Te rog, te rog, deschide-mi inima". Asta era tot ce-ÅŸi dorea: o inima deschisa.(…)Dup? câteva luni de rug? continu? pentru o inim? deschis?, ce credeÅ£i c? a primit Richard? (…)o operaÅ£ie de urgen?? pe cord deschis. Pieptul i-a fost t?iat în dou?, coastele i-au fost dep?rtate unele de altele ÅŸi au l?sat lumina s?-i intre în inim? la propriu(…).

I have just returned from having surgery on the mercenary flagship—I was nearly killed when my ship was boarded, and I don't see any scars on you, sir. Don't push your luck.

I'm going to be wearing the Stryker hat because I'm a walking testimonial to the fact that you can get your knee replaced and still play at a really high level and get your life back.

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

It's a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.

I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

I've had a number of injuries; I've had a number of surgeries, and I've been able to bounce back from them. I attribute that to Him as much as me just trying to take care of myself as much as I can.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.