My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded.
Abraham VergheseTags: medicine healing doctors surgeon
I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology?
Michael J. CollinsTags: science people understanding medicine doctor medical surgeon
The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding outside while the good doctor recited Cicero and excised part of himself as blithely as if he were cutting for stone on the body of another.
Abraham VergheseTags: doctor physician etymology cutting-for-stone surgeon hippocratic-oath title-meaning
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, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer
David MitchellTags: life friendship murder death meat surgeon
Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: free-will freedom god religion notion surgeon
As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures!
Israelmore AyivorTags: theater good character failure leadership theatre food-for-thought leader lead surgery doctor leaders sick hospital leading patient old-ways instruments surgeon one-way israelmore-ayivor self-leaders self-leadership self-leader a-bag a-good-surgical-doctor bag doctor-of-surgery orderlies self-leadership-character surgical surgical-doctor vary
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
Wilfred TrotterTags: humor science energy mind strange funny ideas new-ideas scientist surgeon antigen neurosurgery-pioneer protein
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