Surgery Quotes

“If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then I am sure that I am fitted for it.”

“Surgery is a tool. It's not a cure.”

“The heart is just a pump. A pump can be replaced.”

“The surgeon of the future will be more of a physician, and the physician of the future will be more of a surgeon.”

“A surgeon's life is a constant battle against disease and death, a battle he must often fight alone.”

“One of the chief triumphs of modern surgery is that it has rendered operations safer, but it has not been able to make them less terrible.”

“A surgeon must be a man of courage.”

“I should 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.”