Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like… — Myron Rolle Copy Share Image
“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.” — Wolf Pascoe Copy Share Image
“As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with God for one more day, one more week, one more month… — Ariana Carruth Copy Share Image
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the… — Myron Rolle Copy Share Image
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As we're staggering out of the hospital, I don't remember doing this because I was still high, but apparently I turned to… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Growing up, all four of my grandparents lived in our house. Three of them were very sick. We all cared for them,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My curling personality really had the killer instinct, compared to the real me. I kind of liken it to when a surgeon… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
“I’d spent my entire life in Seattle, watching others pass me by, day after day, completely oblivious to me. I remained along… — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“This may sound like too much regimentation for you, but whether it’s that or needed discipline depends on your point of view.… — Andrew S. Grove Copy Share Image
One night a man and a woman are both at a bar knocking back a few beers. They start talking and come… — Jokes4all Copy Share Image
“After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel… — Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell Copy Share Image
“Code Blue! We’re losing him!” The EMTs hustled the gurney containing Erik Dawson’s broken body into the operating room where the surgical… — Maurice M Gray Jr Copy Share Image
“with the Sravastis. If they need to make a stop or two along the way for essentials, that’s fine, but only necessary… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“Another common practice, the reps told us, was to take fancy meals to the entire doctor’s office (one of the perks of… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“The mood is on me to-night only becuase I have listened to several hours of intelligent conversation and I am not a… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Block said. “I mean, he’s a professor emeritus. He’s never watched a football game in my conscious memory. The whole picture—it wasn’t… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“A figure held his daughter in the rocker. In the dim light he couldn’t make out the features, but the sight of… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“One evening in April a thirty-two-year-old woman, unconscious and severely injured, was admitted to the hospital in a provincial town south of… — Jens Christian Grøndahl Copy Share Image
“They [the dying in hospitals] did not blow up in mid-air like Kraft or the dead man in Yossarian's tent, or freeze… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Billy sipped the last of his coffee from the mug and shut down his laptop. 1,000 words wasn’t great but it also… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“The following year, she quit. Several things were bothering her. Safety protocols seemed to have no bearing on actual practice; she saw… — Jennifer Block Copy Share Image
I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
“The operating room turns you into somebody who's never wrong. Much like writing." "Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
![“I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no…” quote by Christiaan Barnard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/christiaan-barnard-39607_animal_i-had-bought-two-male-chimps-from-a-prim_126559.jpg)
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