Surgeons Quotes - Page 3

• When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Doctors, Together, Males

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• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, People, Want

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

  Saul Bellow

  Hands, Feelings, Novelists

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• The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.

  C. Everett Koop

  Country, Respect, Rights

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• A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Years, Purpose

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• I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Brain, Habit, Dropping

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• MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Class, Voice

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• Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

  Marsden Wagner

  Years, Healthy, Normal

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• A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.

  Joan Rivers

  Lobotomy, Plastic, Surgery

  "Happy 80th birthday Joan Rivers! Comedian's 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liner jokes" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. June 08, 2013.

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• My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

  Brian May

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Hands, Soul, Secret

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• Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Knowing

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• Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

  Dolly Parton

  Fake People, Mountain, Plastic

  Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More Deluxe”, p.90, Penguin

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• If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

  Cory Doctorow

  Block, Ifs, Writer's Block

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• We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum.
  Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
  Thunders.

  James Kirkup

  Heart, Car, Breathe

  James Kirkup (1996). “An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences”

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• A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Pain, Successful, Boys

  "Plain Facts for Old and Young". Book by John Harvey Kellogg, 1877.

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• 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

  Integrity, Thinking, Office

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• After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Coffee, Garden

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• An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Healing, Engineering, Law

  Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”

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• Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

  Allan Pease

  Brain, Experts, Pay

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• I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Motivational, Comedy

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• I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.

  Charles R. Drew

  Army, Race, Views

  "One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew" by Spencie Love, (pp. 155-156), 1996.

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• It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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• 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

  Art, Children, Writing

  1961 In the New Yorker, 11 Nov. Tribute to James Thurber.

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