Assets Quote by Christopher Reeve

“The most powerful and most deceptive medical lie of all, is that your doctor knows everything there is to know about your health, or…

— Ken D. Berry

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important…

— Emma Stone

The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that…

— Susannah Cahalan

“My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you…

— Abraham Verghese

“I told a doctor once, "Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!”

— Gerard de Marigny

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

— Henny Youngman

“The resulting flood of information, always of varying quality and sometimes of uncertain sanity, creates a veneer of knowledge that actually leaves people worse…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“You can’t have that kind of knowledge in your head and not do something about it.”

— Adam J. Wright

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

— Richard Selzer

“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle