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Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Jack Nicholson

It's hard to teach an astronaut to be a surgeon. I'll be the surgeon and they will be the technologists. Devices such as this could be invaluable on long duration space flights where medical personnel and equipment is sparse.

Dmitry Oleynikov

I have been given the name of a good surgeon and I am going to have a pin inserted.

Michael Owen

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Vance Moss

We have precisely enough -- that is, 20,000 doses -- available to us in Hungary, so that if the situation comes up where bird flu spreads to domestic poultry, that the surgeon general can decide to vaccinate people who breed or who work immediately with those birds.

Andras Batiz

I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

Dr. Richard Selzer

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Harvey Cushing

What you really want is a hand tool that has robotic capability so that a surgeon could be in the middle of a procedure and be able to bring in the robot.

William Peine

This is an exciting time when you see the time and energy spent in planning coming together. All of the staff is excited about creating a new healthcare experience which focuses on the surgical outcome desired by the patient and surgeon.

Jim Bryant

That's when Burke started to come out, not merely as an attending surgeon who's dating an intern but as a fully dimensional guy. We discovered that he's someone who cooks, he's someone who has compassion.

Isaiah Washington

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Mary Pettibone Poole

While I am extremely disappointed to not be available to my Real Salt Lake teammates as we push for the fourth and final Western Conference playoff spot, I fully expect to come back for the 2006 MLS season quicker and stronger than ever, ... I expect to meet with U.S. Soccer's top surgeon, Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, the week of September 26 to determine my medical course of acti.

Jason Kreis

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity. They let you get into confined spaces. You can eliminate hand tremor, and you can be very precise and delicate. It's as if the tips of the instruments become your fingertips.

William Peine

You didn't have to be a brain surgeon to read the tea leaves. When you've been in coaching a while, you can see that stuff coming a mile away.

Steve Sidwell

The surgery was enhanced as a result because the surgeon was able to make a larger incision to relieve pressure. It allowed her to remove a larger portion of a tumor.

Denise Almazan

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

These remotely controlled in vivo robots provide the surgeon with an enhanced field of view from arbitrary angles, as well as provide dexterous manipulators not constrained by small incisions in the abdominal wall.

Dmitry Oleynikov

Mark will be out for the rest of the season. That's what the surgeon has told us.

David O'leary

If you're a brain surgeon it's more like two weeks' salary. But if you're flipping burgers, spending two months' salary, you're not going to have a very happy girlfriend.

Chuck Kuba

[Surgeon in charge J.N. Green] found Dr. Mary Walker a capable, tireless assistant, indispensable to him and his 100 or more sick and wounded patients, ... Mary Edward Walker: Above and Beyond.

Dale Walker

Mrs. Whiteley never smoked a pack of cigarettes that didn't have a health warning on it that was written by the surgeon general.

William Ohlemeyer

Walk through actual cells, become a prisoner of your own fear, see another side of yourself, realize the blessing of insanity, and leave yourself behind. Surgeon is there...He already knows where you are...

Joshua Reale

There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

Brandon Phillips

Heart surgery is quite a big event and people are keen to know about their particular surgeon.

Andy Owens

You had a dream to be the best possible player you could be. You had a dream to play in the NCAA tournament. You had a dream to be an orthopedic surgeon. You are a testament to what any young girl in this audience can do if you have a dream.

Bill Cords

We were so impressed with his background -- not only in government, but as a surgeon, and his interest in becoming connected to the community.

Jim Flanagan

If there are roles that come my way after this, I might just do it part-time. But for me, studies come first. I want to be a heart surgeon ultimately.

Jasmine Trias

The surgeon has decided to go down another route and hopefully this way, he'll be right for the start of pre-season training.

David O'leary

It's best to have an injured ankle evaluated as soon as possible for proper diagnosis and treatment. If you can't see a foot and ankle surgeon or visit the emergency room right away, follow the RICE principle -- Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation -- until medical care is available.

Matthew Dairman

AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.

Richard Keller

The study's findings of slowed bone loss and the reduction in hip fractures for some groups suggest a role for these supplements in preventing hip fracture in generally healthy postmenopausal women and support the current Surgeon General's recommendations for these nutrients.

Joan Mcgowan

The surgeon did not believe that surgery was necessary as Ceri's symptoms are resolving themselves.

Mark Davies

You don't have to be a surgeon to enjoy these books. The economics, the politics, the turf fights -- it could be yesterday.

Dr. Leonard Rosenman

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Nicholas Chamfort

It is not routine for scholars to disclose the nature of their clinical practice as a potential conflict of interest. For example, the presence of a cardiovascular surgeon as an author of an article about whether a certain cardiac surgical technique was safe would not represent a conflict of interest.

Philip Darney

Patients always have their option to choose either ambulatory surgical center or the hospital for outpatient care. Their surgeon would work with the patient in determining where to schedule the procedure.

Phil Harper

No operation should be carried out unless absolutely necessary . . . nor should a surgeon operate unless he would undergo the same operation himself in similar circumstances, ... The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery.

John Hunter

If you need heart surgery, you don't want a surgeon who only got a C in medical school. The same principle applies in helping people with mental illnesses.

Ken Duckworth

This program with one surgeon is a relatively small program that I think is very sensitive to clusters of abnormal outcomes, and very serious about trying to address that. In larger programs we wonder whether they may not be so sensitive because they have many surgeons doing many more procedures.

Mary Washington