Quotes tagged ‘Surgery’

“Every time, I wished I could just keep walking and not stop until I was well outside the hospital doors. Perhaps the baby could meet me there, and I could carry him far enough away that neither of us would ever have a reason to turn back.”

— Jen Gann, thecut.com

“Tripper: Roxanne, I have what doctors call ‘very active glands.’ You're the first person I've told, my folks don't even know. Roxanne: Well, maybe you can have surgery without them knowing. Tripper: Awww, heck with surgery! Let's wrestle!”

— Harold Ramis, Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg, Janis Allen, Triipper Harrison, Bill Murray, imdb.com

“Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, the high court said in a statement Friday.”

— Adam Edelman, NBC News, nbcnews.com

“Dr. Max Goodwin: So you don't like doing surgery? Dr. Floyd Pearson: I love doing surgery. Dr. Max Goodwin: Then why did you only do half as many as everyone else? Dr. Floyd Pearson: Because my patients didn't need them. I gave them medications, I gave them alternatives, there were better ways to he…”

— David Schulner, Floyd Pearson, Jocko Sims, imdb.com

“If y'all thinking about doing anything to y'all self, leave that shit alone.”

— Kimberly Michelle, broadly.vice.com

“You do know you're drooling, right? About cutting open a 40-year-old woman. A real person, right behind that door.”

— David Shore, Dr. Claire Browne, Antonia Thomas, imdb.com

“Those are assets. Undeniable assets for any doctor, particularly a surgeon.”

— David Shore, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

“Dr. Bacon: Actually, I think we need to wear each others faces for a while. Quinn: Eww! Like that movie with that guy and that other guy? Daria: Can I do the surgery? Dr. Bacon: No, no, no. I'm talking about a little role-playing.”

— Glenn Eichler, Peggy Nicoll, Quinn Morgendorffer (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com

“Three hours ago, this man was in a battle. Two hours ago, we operated on him. He's got a fifty-fifty chance. We win some, we lose some. That's what it's all about. No promises. No guaranteed survival. No 'saints in surgical garb'. Our willingness, our experience, our technique are not enough. Guns a…”

— Laurence Marks, Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda, imdb.com

“Kramer: You know you’re not supposed to brush your teeth for 24 hours before you go to the dentist. Jerry: I think you’re thinking of ‘You’re not supposed to eat 24 hours before surgery.’ Kramer: Oh, you gotta eat before surgery. You need your strength.”

— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“Surgery's like the Wild West. You didn't get your claim in Montana from the bank. You got it 'cause you put a fence around it and shot the ass off anyone who walked by.”

— Debora Cahn, Dr. Mark Sloan, Eric Dane, imdb.com

“If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The saying's as true of the human body as it is of a washing machine or a blender. A good surgeon knows that if you go screwing around with something that doesn't need screwing, you are the one who is liable to end up screwed.”

— Austin Guzman, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“I’m a doctor and every time I perform a life-saving surgery, someone bursts into tears and shouts ‘Thank God!’ How Christian is it to take all the fucking credit?”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“What do you call an intestine that's been partially removed? A semicolon!”

— MrTryting, reddit.com

“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuousl…”

— Hippocrates, amazon.com

“My mother used to say the way to a mans heart is through his stomach. Lovely woman. Useless surgeon.”

— raydeep, reddit.com

“An Italian surgeon plans to perform the first human head transplant next year. Besides being completely unethical, it’s scientifically unfounded and a crazy thing to do.”

— Dr. Bruce Gelb, observer.com