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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
![“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)