Quotes About Surgery

Amazing! said Mr. McSwiney. You've got a permanently fixed larynx, he told Owen. I've rarely seen such a thing, he said. Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the position of a permanent scream. I could try giving you some exercises, but you might want to see a throat doctor; you might have to have surgery. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, I DON'T NEED ANY EXERCISES, said Owen Meany. IF GOD GAVE ME THIS VOICE, HE HAD A REASON, Owen said.

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

I don't understand nor have any respect for these fake girls who have cosmetic surgery all over the place.

My mind went back to the implements on the cave's wall, the herbs and tools of healing. Surgery was the word he had used.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Robertson was in the operating room and no word on his condition was coming out. A bloody-handed nurse, who'd taken him in, stood washing her hands, and when Lucas asked, she said, "I've seen worse who lived. But then, I've seen better who died." No help there.

When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, "How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me.

You know," I said, "I've been trying to make jokes to you the entire time I've been here." "I know," she said. "I'm sorry. My sense of humor was surgically removed as a child." "Oh," I said. "That was a joke

I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.

Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.

It was now so much a part of him, that it could not have been torn from him without destroying him almost entirely: as they say in surgery, his love was no longer operable.

Non posso fingere di non sapere quanto la volontà di un ottimo chirurgo sia ininfluente rispetto al compiersi di un destino. Le braccia di un uomo sono ferme alla terra, figlia mia, Dio, se c'è, è alle nostre spalle.

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

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

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.

My whole head is like I've had a face lift.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

She needs open-heart surgery, and they should go in through her feet.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

Lung replacement was a common emergency surgery these days,

twenty-eight years old, getting elective surgery

Some people climb mountains, others get to have heart surgery.

Effective software change, like effective surgery, really involves deeper skills. Working with care doesn't do much for you if you don't use the right tools and techniques. Cover