Always Quote by Roberto Azevedo

Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.

— Frans van Houten

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business.

— Hari Nef

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have…

— Benjamin Carson

I now turn down patients who want an operation but they will have very little gain from it.

— Terry Dubrow

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

— Antonin Scalia

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war…

— Michael Huffington

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

— William Stewart Halsted

Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no…

— John W. Kirklin

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

— Bill Walton

“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

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

— Ann Patchett

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

— Vivek Murthy