Rene Leriche quotes

“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.”
-- Rene Leriche

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“Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.”
-- Rene Leriche

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“Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.”

“Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.”

“While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.”

“The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.”

“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.”

“Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.”

“I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.”

“U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.”

Source : "How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us". www.wsj.com. September 21, 2012.

“No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.”

“Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.”

Source : c.1181 De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.4.