Quotes About Surgeon

Despair, hate, loss, frustration, horror. How could any man live this way? To be a surgeon, to live knowing that you would be too weak to save some? When other men failed, a field of crops got worms in them. When a surgeon failed, someone died.

You have to learn when to care, son. His father's voice. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses. He never had. Storm him, he never had. It was why he'd never made a good surgeon. He couldn't lose patients.

Storms. Was that how close they'd come? "Cutting it a little tight, don't you think, son?" "A surgeon must be timely and precise." "This is timely?" Lirin said. "Well, you do hate it when people waste time," Kaladin said, grinning.

The precision of a filmmaker is like the precision of a surgeon.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Essere chirurgo significa aprire la superficie delle cose e vedere ciò che si nasconde all'interno.

The man was a hog: a florid, jowly, pug-nosed, rheumy-eyed hog. A cosmetic surgeon's nightmare. Rudy Graveline couldn't bear to watch him eat.

Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from both armies screamed and groaned in agony from wounds. By the eerie light of torches 'the surgeon's saw was going the livelong night.

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I do not think you are in any danger of starving, Maximus said. The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat. The devil! Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

Darby, sir, but Janus they call me," the seaman said, "on account of a surgeon we shipped in the Sophie , a learned bloke, saying I saw both ways like some old Roman cut-up by that name.

Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body, Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Great claims were made for the healing value of the royal touch. The surgeon, Richard Wiseman, testified to having witnessed hundreds of cures, and asserted that Charles II healed more sufferers in one year 'than all the surgeons of London had done in an age'.

Even had Garfield simply been left alone, he almost certainly would have survived. Lodged as it was in the fatty tissue below and behind his pancreas, the bullet itself was no continuing danger to the president. Nature did all she could to restore him to health, a surgeon would write just a few years later. She caused a capsule of thick, strong, fibrous tissue to be formed around the bullet, completely walling it off from the rest of the body, and rendering it entirely harmless.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

I saw the angels lifted like pale straws; I could not stand before those winnowing eyes. And fell, until I found the world again. Now I lack grace to tell what I have seen; For though the head frames words the tongue has none. And who will prove the surgeon to this stone?

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Our operation has a mortality rate of 1%. So far we have operated on ninety-nine patients with great success; you are our one hundreth, hence you have a 100% probability of dying on the table.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest, says a surgeon. It's nothing to worry about.

I wasn't expecting that. It hit me in a place I didn't know was there. All I could think of was one of those medical shows. They're operating on some poor slob, they accidentally nick an artery, and he starts gushing. 'We got a bleeder!' the surgeon yells, and everybody comes rushing to the operating table. Nobody was rushing to me, though.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.