Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
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Famous Richard Selzer Quotes
“Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor
“I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.”
“The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.”
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
“The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.”
Source: Taking the World in for Repairs
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor