Artificial Quote by William DeVries

“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 felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked…

— Brad Alan Lewis

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

— Steve Tibbetts

“Fully half of all transplant patients, I found out, develop postoperative psychological problems of some sort.”

— Mary Roach

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.

— Jed Mercurio

“I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery." His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of…

— Marissa Meyer

“The narrator said the man about to come in for interview had tabes dorsalis and general paresis. The doctor sitting at the desk had…

— Richard Bradford

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

— Vladimir Nabokov

No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch…

— Gabi Hollows

I had a real epiphany. I guess it was during and after the operation. I did what's a common thing; I kind of raised…

— Larry Hagman

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

— Ann Patchett

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so…

— Charles Bukowski