Quotes About Surgery

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

At least 90 percent of children's surgery is unnecessary, needlessly exposing the patient to the risks of death from the surgery itself, from anesthesia, or from infections contracted in the hospital, which is an inescapably germ-ridden environment.

It shouldn't surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we're paid by the word), while a colleague of mine jokes that a typical post-op surgical note reads something like "Feeling well and doing swell.

breasts had grown to gargantuan proportions

How was your bone-replacement surgery? asked Illyan. About what I expected, from having my legs done before. The ugliest part was opening my right arm and hand up to pick out all the bone fragments. Tedious. The left went a lot faster — the pieces were bigger.

Some people think the plant-based, whole-foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme." —DR. CALDWELL ESSELSTYN N

Arik was the master of caesarean sections. Arik could perform a caesarean in three minutes.

It is terrifying when God takes out the instruments for the surgery for which no human being has the strength: to take away a person's human zest for life, to slay him – in order that he can live as one who has died to the world and to the flesh.

Anyone being flown to a distant city for heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly at least, that we have learned a few things about physics, geography, engineering, and medicine since the time of Moses.

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

genetic workup showed I had a BRCA1 mutation, I chose to undergo chemo and have my breasts removed. (That was an aggressive course of action, and I had no regrets. My

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Could it be that many drugs or even surgeries actually work better because we're repeatedly primed, educated, and conditioned to believe in their effects—when if it weren't for the placebo effect, those drugs might not work as well or at all?

What I'd like to do is give you to some kind of clinic for experimentation," Leonard said. "Something to do with cutting off heads and packing them in ice.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.

Losing a part of a breast or all of one or both has, obviously, serious psychological consequences.

I implanted an intraocular contact lens, and if you poke me in the eye really hard it moves. Imagine how many punches I took... I had to put it back in place all the time.

But if I'd flown back, I would probably have lost my leg because of the blood clots. I've got two scars down the side of my leg where they had to cut me open and pull them out.

In all of life, I've never heard of a C-section where a scalpel goes too deep and actually slices into the baby's forehead. Or even touches the baby's forehead.

I have a hernia scar from when I was a kid. I had a hernia when I was like in fourth grade.

You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon. -Batman