Amputation Surgery Quotes & Sayings

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality. — Sam Kean

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish. — Richard C. Armitage

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. — Seth Godin

The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck. — Evan Esar

As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising from his heart the impulse to run, to cower, to let the man bleed to death rather than face the horror of saving him. The amputation had left both patients lighter. p 121-122 — Anthony Marra

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
of the hands. — L. M. Boyd

The road to freedom lies, not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of Nature's forces and laws. The Law of Mind is a natural law in the spiritual world. — Ernest Holmes

Believe, like I do . . .You won't hurt anybody you don't mean to. You're the motherfucking Orchid. Now go kick some ass for me, Pen. — Ellen Connor

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone — Drake

I've always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he's able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca

Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving. — Kennon Callahan