Irony Quote by Wolf Pascoe

“The severance between us was surgical, and there was no anaesthetic..”

— Jostein Gaarder

“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.”

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“She was soothing chaos. Like that first taste of anesthesia, before you lost your senses.  Or the venom that numbed you before it killed…

— R.K. Lilley

“Suffice it to say, we were horrified by the entire concept of dying, even if we weren't the ones with the death sentence.”

— Tosca Lee

“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

“It was only a matter of time before we started dying.”

— Michael McBride

“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”

— Ray Bradbury

“...emergency medicine is extended periods of intense boredom, interrupted by occasional spurts of sheer terror...”

— Sheri Richey

“And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart,…

— Loretta Ellsworth

“There’s a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.”

— Sanjay Gupta

“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

— Thornton Wilder

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch