Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Sur...
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“Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.”
“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.”
“The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.”
“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”