Quotes About Surgery Pain

#1. Surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

John E. Sarno

#2. You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

Jed Diamond

#3. There is a pain that means things are coming apart. But then, sometimes there is a pain that means that things might be able to come back together. Surgery can be as painful as stabbing, but it leads to healing. I knew I was beginning to heal.

John Ortberg

#4. By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.

Kristi Funk

#5. The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Philip Yancey

#6. Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

Maeve Binchy

#7. This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Antonin Scalia

#8. But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Richard Krajicek

#9. But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#10. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

Zach Condon

#11. Because, as any English-speaking tourist will tell you, if you speak slow enough, loud enough, and maintain good eye contact, eventually they'll understand.

Poppy Inkwell

#12. Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Marc Newson

#13. You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.)

Michio Kaku

#15. Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

Marni Jackson

#16. You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

#18. I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

Bernie Siegel

#19. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston S. Churchill

#20. The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Epictetus

#21. Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain.

Fred Amir