A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby’s brain.The torrent started up again. It flowed steady rather than pulsed with his...

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

I had seen that once before, bleeding water. A little baby I worked on as a resident in training. That poor kid had been shot as well—his father had blasted away the top of his...

It’s tricky to say ‘never,’ but I will never have plastic surgery.

The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put first a finger in the entry wound and then another in...

In the course of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in relation to it, I arrived several years ago at the conclusion that the...

I’m kilt, I’m kilt! Oh Gawd, I’m kilt!” Others lay limp, in shock. These last were mostly quiet, their color unnaturally pale. It was agonizingly humid in the still air of the yard. The stink...

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

Then the long nights, that were also days, in the hospital. And the long blanks, that were also nights. Needles, and angled glass rods to suck water through. Needles, and curious enamel wedges slid under...

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they’re doing it differently. They don’t do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings… and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character…...

I don’t want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

It took a surgery to get me here.

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

Doctors; all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That’s a general statement.

Of the many ‘firsts’ with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the...

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in...

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you’ll be set free forever.