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This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

Every moment is an experience.

The moment is supreme.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.