A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
My plastic surgeon. . . said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.
