Sarcastic quotes Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“I know a plastic surgeon who put the gun/ in his mouth, fired, and lived./ Thing of the echo. The brain in its great…

— Keith Ratzlaff

“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

“If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.”

— David C. Lindberg

“From The Doctor's Latin Lover ... "That just hurt. Crippled. Oh, God, don't let him see how much. God heard her. The tropical sky,…

— Olivia Gates

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely”

— Leo Tolstoy

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

“We hung our heads, ashamed. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased,…

— David Mitchell

“One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to waiting for him and everyone…

— Joseph Heller

“I had to become a patient. And I had to make up my mind quickly before the unthinkable happened. So I went under the…

— Allan Hamilton

“Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any…

— Mervyn Peake

“He’s dying!’ Doctor Cove, one of the ship’s two medical officers told me, looking at his med-scanner as he kneeled at the broken body…

— Christina Engela