Top 100 Surgeon Quotes
#1. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.
Yongsoo Park
#2. Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.
James Jones
#3. In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
Sam Kean
#4. Earth fell," said the Surgeon, "because the Will required us to atone for the sin our ancestors committed when they treated your ancestors like beasts. The quality of our poetry had nothing to do with it.
Robert Silverberg
#5. 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.
Naomi Novik
#6. Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
E.B. White
#8. It doesn't take a brain surgeon ... or a cardiologist ... or a pediatrician ... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.
Heidi Murkoff
#9. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
Richard Carmona
#11. My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
Katharine Hepburn
#12. 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.
Amanda Donohoe
#13. I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
Alber Elbaz
#14. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#15. At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.
John W. Kirklin
#16. It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
John Cleese
#17. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
Bernie Siegel
#18. I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
Harvey Cushing
#19. A report issued by the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent of men listed as killed in action died in operational aircraft accidents, not as a result of enemy action.
Laura Hillenbrand
#20. I know a plastic surgeon who put the gun/ in his mouth, fired, and lived./ Thing of the echo. The brain in its great hall/ banqueting, then besieged.
Keith Ratzlaff
#21. If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
Magdi Yacoub
#22. When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.
Jennifer Egan
#23. One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die.
Joseph Heller
#24. The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
Florence Nightingale
#25. You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.
Bikram Choudhury
#26. Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
Wernher Von Braun
#27. A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
Abraham Verghese
#28. An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma -
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#29. No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.
Paul Rudnick
#30. Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
#31. The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
T. S. Eliot
#32. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
Willem Dafoe
#33. A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.
Vivek Murthy
#34. I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
Magdi Yacoub
#35. Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.
Bill O'Reilly
#36. Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.
Tom Hayes
#37. I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
Spencer Johnson
#38. The women were quiet. Blazing Knight checked her computing jobs on the net. A plastic surgeon was found. She could go any time and offer him a chance to repair her rotten parts, to reconstruct her again to a beautiful young female.
J.M.K. Walkow
#39. You can't get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon - and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert.
Sam Harris
#40. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
John Ortberg
#41. Right now I felt like a person learning that a surgeon had left a pair of scissors inside her during a operation.
Alexandra Kleeman
#42. Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
Paul Simon
#43. Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.
George Bernard Shaw
#44. I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.
Jerry Doyle
#45. How grateful are we
how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#46. Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
Artie Shaw
#47. In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it's architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
Tom Ford
#48. I've got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who've had it. The point about good surgery is you can't see it. The important thing is not to go crazy - and not to go to a bad surgeon.
Suki Waterhouse
#49. I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
Winston Churchill
#50. In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.
Virginia Postrel
#51. Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do.
J. Carter Swift
#52. Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
Walter Map
#53. In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.
William Osler
#54. I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
Larry Bucshon
#55. My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my mind stronger is just, you know, has been on point. So I feel very prepared for the journey to qualify, and the journey to wear the gold medal.
Kerri Walsh
#56. I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school and she responds with detailed plans for her future life as an archaeologist or philosopher or - new, this - a veterinary surgeon.
William Boyd
#57. Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid
#58. I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.
Shane Warne
#59. If Every-day People Could Use Athletes' Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: "I don't know. I just came out a little flat. You can't get hyped up every single day.")
Rick Reilly
#60. I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
Richard Carmona
#61. I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'"
And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer.
Joan Didion
#62. She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
#63. Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
Timothy Keller
#64. Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.
Paul Douglas
#65. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson
#66. Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Emily Dickinson
#67. The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#68. You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
Cameron Russell
#69. A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.
Rick Riordan
#70. The curve of her smile promised things that were probably illegal, and bad for you, and would carry warnings from the Surgeon General, but that you'd still want to do over and over again.
Jim Butcher
#71. 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.
Anthony Marra
#72. The 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.
Hans Fritzsche
#73. I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.
Raymond Carver
#74. I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl.
Joan Rivers
#75. Ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone
Dean Cavanagh
#76. Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
Jack Nicholson
#77. There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
Ben Carson
#78. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.
Margaret Mazzantini
#79. My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
Daphne Oz
#80. Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?
David Ogilvy
#81. I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.
Sharon Osbourne
#82. Where's Philips?" he demanded. "Or this ship's surgeon?"
"Philips went below to tend the men there. Their surgeon is no longer in possession of the lower half of his body. I believe he is presently indisposed with the business of dying.
Alexandra Bracken
#83. If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
James Herriot
#84. I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
Lexa Doig
#85. I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
James Thurber
#86. I'm not a surgeon.' 'You don't have to be. You're an engineer. That's almost the same thing.' 'Your ignorance is frightening.
Jodi Taylor
#87. A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson
#88. 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.
Thomas Harris
#89. The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert Cormier
#90. A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.
Joan Rivers
#91. When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
David Suchet
#92. I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.
Tom Wolfe
#93. By now the perpetually changing landscape of breast cancer was beginning to tire him out. Trials, tables, and charts had never been his forte; he was a surgeon, not a bookkeeper.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#94. I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
Uma Thurman
#95. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.
Atul Gawande
#96. As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
Magdi Yacoub
#97. Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.
Alan Furst
#98. The U.S. Surgeon General has declared that attacks by male partners are the number one cause of injury to women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four.
Lundy Bancroft
#99. Zed and Sky had stayed behind and were chatting with Will, Sky sitting on Zed's knee as if nothing was going to get them apart again in a hurry. Victor and Uriel were playing cards at the kitchen table. Trace looked cute in an apron, chopping vegetables with a surgeon's precision.
Joss Stirling
#100. When there is no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
Paul Kalanithi
