Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.