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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.