Quotes About Surgery

As more and more technologies develop that enable us to communicate without touch (from phones to email to phone sex to virtual surgery), it seems likely that touch will become more and more stigmatized as a vehicle for contamination, both literal and symbolic.

reason most operating theaters have been closed down or have been turned into restaurants.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure.

I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.

Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.

My lower and upper teeth had to be removed.

I've had my eyes done twice. I have had the bags removed, upper and lower. When you get older, your lids get heavy and you look tired all the time. That was fantastic. It freshened up my eyes.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

I had cartilage sticking out my nose. I couldn't breathe out of my left nostril.

There is a difference between going under the knife and the stigma.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.

My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning to finish it.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.

Related—"What is the best or most worthwhile investment you've made?" Lasik surgery.

When I was 10 I had a bone disease called osteomyelitis; they said if they didn't operate, I had 24 hours to live.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

I see the skin from the inside out when I'm operating on it - I can see the dehydration and the abuse.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

I've had an operation on my jaw - I don't have the big jaw anymore - and I've also had an operation on my eyes.

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.