Alive Quote by Bernie Siegel

“I just don’t trust surgeons. I trust very few people, and I especially dislike the notion of trusting one perfect stranger, surrendering all control…

— Andre Agassi

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…

— Mehmet Oz

“People sometimes ask what it’s like to be a surgeon who works with the living human brain each day. I think sometimes it’s like…

— Peter Black

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they…

— Paul Douglas

“When a surgeon refuses to operate on you because it’s dangerous and unethical, you have no options. Just 'Here’s one more permanent loss to…

— Michael Bihovsky

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I…

— Norman Mailer

If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon;…

— Joseph Lister

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on…

— Denton Cooley

“The best surgeon is not the one who makes the most incisions;”

— Greg McKeown

“Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.

— Richard Carmona

“There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day…

— Atul Gawande