Quotes About Surgery

Surgeons scan patient parts and print models of them, to practice on before operating in earnest.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

It's a nasty story. I got that much before my informant sobered up. Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife by Caesarean section—and she died on the table. What he did next shows that he knew the score; with the same scalpel he cut Captain Brant's throat—then his own. Sorry, hon." Jill

Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.

Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.

so we shot him up with antibiotics and glued shut a slashed vein in the groin that was sure to kill him.

So am I going to get a zipper in my chest?

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.

I told you, we must cut out imagination. In everyone...Extirpate imagination. Nothing but surgery, nothing but surgery will do!

What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have cholera again. What did I tell you? [He tossed the thin one on his horns.] I told you so... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer... nothing but surgery...

A la mañana siguiente de la batalla de Waterloo (1815), junto a los hospitales de campaña podían verse montones de manos y piernas serrados. En aquellos tiempos, a los carpinteros y carniceros que se alistaban en el ejército se les solía destinar a servir en el cuerpo médico, porque la cirugía requería poca cosa más que saberse manejar con cuchillos y sierras.

We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part," Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. "Hey man, what are you playing?" "Super Busy Hospital, could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery. This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times."

La mayoría de las mujeres obtienen sus hermosas miradas de la mamá, a menos que el padre pasa a ser un cirujano plástico.

La plupart des femmes obtiennent leur belle apparence de la mère, à moins que le papa se trouve être un chirurgien plastique.

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.

Complete knowledge of any alien physiology could be obtained within minutes by Educator Tape, but the skill to use that knowledge—especially in surgery—came only with time.

"The Rachel" was high maintenance. I'd curse ... every time I had to blowdry. It took three brushes--it was like doing surgery!

What they don't understand is that obstetricians are surgeons, and they know pathology, but they really suck at wellness." They are trained to sew up a tear, but not to prevent one.

A cesarean section is a wound that impedes normal digestive function, function that must resume following surgery. Breast milk is delayed. Seven layers of tissue and muscle are severed.

A woman is four times more likely to die having a cesarean section than a vaginal birth.

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

Careful with that, said the Doctor. No need to get carried away. Aldridge spun the scalpel like a baton. Yessir. Careful is my middle name. Actually Clumsy is my middle name, but that doesn't encourage clients and it makes me sound like one of those dwarfs that are going to be so popular when moving pictures a get going.

No big deal," Margie said, trying to keep her jaw stoic. "Just, you know, a Lap-band. The stomach-stapling thing, right?