It is better to open and see than to wait and see.-Sidney Cuthbert Wallace (1907)
The flat abdomen is a good abdomen.-G A Decker
Abdominal wall closure: if it looks all right, it’s too tight – if it looks too loose, it’s alright.-Matt Oliver
Better to have a piece of peritoneum on the bowel than a piece of bowel on the peritoneum.
Two things surgeons fear the most are God and peritonitis.-Henri Mondor (1885 - 1962)
Never let the skin stand between you and the diagnosis
Who learns anatomy from books should operate on books only
The advent of anaesthesia has made it so that any idiot can become a surgeon.-William Stewart Halsted (1852 – 1922)
There is an inverse relationship between the surgeon’s ability and the frequency he asks for more muscle relaxants.
A surgeon is someone who likes to operate, an anaesthetist is someone who doesn’t like to give anaesthetics.-David M. Dent
He is not even fit for a haircut under local anaesthesia
Blood brain barrier: the screen between the surgeon and the anaesthetist.
The patient who can’t be intubated should be intubated.
Surgery is not an art, it is a personality disorder.
Have plenty of assistance but not many assistants.-Augustus C. Bernays (1854 - 1907)
A good assistant does not always become a good chief, but a bad assistant never does.
A good chief has always been a good assistant.-Charles F. M. Saint (1886 - 1973)
A surgeon operates as good as his assistant permits.
The surgical resident is like a mushroom: kept in the dark, fed shit and expected to grow.
Poor surgeons can improve but poor assistants never become good surgeons.-Moshe Schein
All bleeding eventually ceases - when the patient is dead.-Guy de Chauliac (1300 - 1368)
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is haemorrhage.-William Stewart Halsted
There are four degrees of intra-operative haemorrhage: 1. Why did I get involved in this operation? 2. Why did I become a surgeon 3. Why did I become a doctor? 4. Why was I born?.-Alexander Artemiev
Blood bank is the surgeon’s gas station.
The most common cause of post-operative coagulopathy: poor haemostasis. Operative atlases never bleed.
The most important clotting factor is the surgeon.-Moshe Schein
In men nine out of ten abdominal tumours are malignant, in women nine out of ten abdominal tumours are the pregnant uterus.-Rutherford Morris (1853 - 1939)
A physician is someone who knows everything and does nothing.A surgeon is someone who does everything and knows nothing.A psychiatrist is someone who knows nothing and does nothing.A pathologist is someone who knows everything and does everything too late.— Anonymous
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.— John W. Kirklin
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known ... [and] ... On Monday, I was world renowned.— Christiaan Barnard
Sepsis is an insult to a surgeon.— Anonymous
There is no better surgeon than a man with many scars.— Spanish Proverb
I don’t dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end.— Richard Selzer
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there
A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.— Benjamin Carson
To be great, a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights.
— Donald B. Effler
Best Quotes for Surgeons Video
Here are some great surgery quotes from an episode of “THE SURGEON’S CUT “ featuring Dr Devi Shetty which is available on Netflix.
1.For me Surgery is an art and all surgeons are artists.Whatever we do ..in the end it should look beautiful .If it looks beautiful it always works.
2.As Surgeons we should be supremely confident of our skills .
3.The worst thing is to see one of your patients you operated on die.The patient dies once ,but we die a hundred times. And that particular day,believe me I’m in no mood to do anything .I cancel rest of the operations ..I just want to be left alone .
4.My mother was deeply spiritual so when something goes wrong,it is my spirituality that keeps me going .
5.I feel I am an instrument in the hands of God and I do exactly what he wants me to do .Nothing more nothing less.
6.Believing that someone else is in command and that I am an instrument in the hands of god ,I do exactly what he wants me to do .This helps me get rid of my anxiety and nervousness .
7.The skill of surgery is given by God and it should be available to everyone .
8.I don’t find myself extraordinary other than the passion to cut and stitch .
9.To the 4000 children I operated in Kolkata :All I ask of you is -can you spend a few minutes of your precious time with someone who need it without expecting anything back in return .”
Read more: https://www.wisesayings.com/surgeon-quotes/#ixzz6eqI4Zrle
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