Quotes About Surgery

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

I had breast implants done to save my marriage. It was the sorriest day of my life.

I will make breast implants passe and butt implants hip and chic.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

When I finally saw Timmy before my surgery, I started saying over and over again, "Get me water, get me water.

his ankle to fuse the ankle so that he could not move it any more. It was locked in place and now he had full use of the ankle that had been surgically fused.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

Before I played in the NHL I had two surgeries. Definitely I was like, 'Wow, this is not good. I haven't played a game yet and I have two surgeries.' I didn't get another one ever again. I was fortunate.

They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore.

Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.

My first five years, I missed a ton of games. I had elbow surgery twice; I had wrist surgery, knee surgery.

Y entonces, recordando el comportamiento de sus maestros cuando se hallaban junto al lecho de un herido, comenzó a reconfortar al paciente con toda clase de buenas palabras, caricias quirúrgicas que son como el aceite con que se engrasan los bisturíes.

At times he actually did perform marvels of surgery for the soldiers; but his chief delights were of a less public and philanthropic kind, requiring many explanations of sounds which seemed peculiar even amidst that babel of the damned. Among these sounds were frequent revolver-shots - surely not uncommon on a battlefield, but distinctly uncommon in a hospital.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

I think when you go through any surgery, your body changes. And with that, it can be probably the toughest mental challenge you're gonna face.

There's a lot of different countries and they do a great job with plastic surgery tourism.

Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.

I don't believe in being emotionally detached from patients. I work with and operate on human beings, all creatures of God, people in pain who need help. I don't know how I can work on a girl's brain--how I can have her life in my hands--and yet not become involved. I feel particularly strong attachments to children who seem so defenseless and who haven't yet had the chance to live a full life.