Ambroise Pare, Sixteenth Century French Surgeon and Father of Military Surgery … [Read more...]
“The pleasure of a physician is little, the gratitude of patients is rare and even rarer is material reward, but, these things never deter the student who feels the call within him.”
Theodor Billroth, legendary 19th century Austrian surgeon … [Read more...]
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.”
Michael Crichton, MD, American writer and physician on why he gave up medicine immediately after completing medical school. … [Read more...]
“Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.”
Dolly Parton, legendary country music singer (and plastic surgery recipient). … [Read more...]
William S. Halsted, MD, “Father” of Modern American Surgery
"Surgery would be delightful if you did not have to operate." … [Read more...]
Rita Rudner, American Comedian
"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." … [Read more...]
April 1, 2009
"The entrance of women into the profession of medicine is an event of importance - not only to the medical profession but to humanity and society... … [Read more...]
March 14, 2009
"The more complicated the surgical case, the simpler the anesthesia." Anonymous … [Read more...]
January 13, 2008
"Let food by thy medicine and medicine by thy food" Hippocrates Copyright 2008 InsideSurgery.com® … [Read more...]
December 16, 2007
"...whenever in the course of my life I have come across ... truly saintly embodiments of practical charity, they have generally had the cheerful, … [Read more...]
November 12, 2007
"Civilization is... encumbered with those who should be dead: the weak, the diseased, and the fools." Dr. Alex Carrel, pioneering French surgeon of … [Read more...]
October 26, 2007
"From the date of my first successful case of blood transfusion (August 8, 1906) by an end-to-end suturing of vessels of one human being to another, … [Read more...]