Surgery

Maina-Miriam Munsky, "Eingriff IV (Chirurgs)", (1973)

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative techniques on a patient to treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.

Quotes

• I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
  • Harvey Cushing, American surgeon, Letter to Henry Christian (November 20, 1911)

• Vulnera, quae melius non tetigisse fuit.
  • Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
    'Twere better that they were not touched at all.
  • Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, III, vii, 25.

• Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
  • Richard Seltzer, American physician, Letters to a Young Doctor (1982)