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I came by the horror naturally. Surgery is the one branch of medicine that is the most violent. After all, it's violent to take up a knife and cut open a person's body and rummage around with your hands. I think I was attracted to the horrific.
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The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing. If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of Medicine.
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One enters the body in surgery, as in love, as though one were an exile returning at last to his hearth, daring uncharted darkness in order to reach home.
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When the moon is in the seventh house, And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars; This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
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Richard Selzer
Born:
June 24, 1928
Died:
June 15, 2016
(aged 87)
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