“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“No operation should be carried out unless absolutely necessary . . . nor should a surgeon operate unless he would undergo the same operation himself in similar circumstances, ... The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery.”
John Hunter
“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
“The Australian surgeon David Young feared the worst initially but after the operation he told me that my knees are stable and I can still play five to six years.”
Shoaib Akhtar
“I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“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
“A surgeon should be young a physician old.”
French Proverb
