“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
“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
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“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
“A surgeon should be young a physician old.”
French Proverb
“I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.”
Fran Drescher
“The surgeon told me that because I was a big guy and so heavy, I could have risked further injury and early arthritis if I had played again last year.”
Robert Campbell
