William Stewart Halsted Quotes

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

William Stewart Halsted

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• Surgeon
• Retaliate
• Hemorrhage

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• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

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• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  

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• The general market wants what I do.

  

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• If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

  

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• In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

  

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• The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

  

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• What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

  

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• All things are ready, if our mind be so.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

  

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• Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

  

  Nicole Kidman
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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  

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• “Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or valid surrogate wants. This prompts the physician to transfer all responsibility to patients, family, or friends. This occurs with alarming frequency in the care of infants, the elderly, and demented patients who may be over- or under-treated because their surrogates demand it. Indeed,”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Practice
  • Patient
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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  

  William Stewart Halsted
  • Patient
  • Surgeon
  • Retaliate