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“A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely…

— Diana Gabaldon

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

— Vivek Murthy

I mean, you start to think about it, particularly when you get a little older. And, you know, a dentist shouldn't have bad teeth.…

— Terry Dubrow

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the…

— Harvey Cushing

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

— Tim Minchin

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and…

— Magdi Yacoub

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

— Hippocrates

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

— Ken Kercheval

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

— Winston Churchill

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

— Vivek Murthy

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic…

— Cameron Russell

“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot…

— Abraham Verghese

Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of…

— David Letterman

“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The…

— Abraham Verghese

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get…

— David Suchet