Surgical Precision Quotes

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

Neurosurgery is a new challenge with each case. The preparation, the discipline, the technical skills and the need to perform at your very best under pressure provide the same adrenaline rush I had in football.

In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

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

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.