Surgeon Quotations | Page 2

'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.

He has progressed at a rate anticipated by both the surgeon and myself to this point.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

We oppose any kind of blocking technology. What about the young parents whose baby sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through.

The surgeon was very blunt with us. He said they had to operate or she would die. I hated him at first for saying it but we quickly grew to respect him. He turned out to be an amazing man.

The surgeon told me that because I was a big guy and so heavy, I could have risked further injury and early arthritis if I had played again last year.

The surgeons here are using minimally invasive techniques.

The Surgeon General says that if you can do physical activity at a moderate level three days a week, you will help prevent heart disease, control cholesterol levels and diabetes, slow bone loss associated with advancing age, lower the risk of certain cancers, and reduce anxiety and depression.

The Surgeon General further stated that the rate of overweight children in America doubled in the past 20 years and tripled among its adolescents.