Surgeons Quotes

I haven`t yet had any plastic surgery, but I won`t knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It`s hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that`s huge. You can see every single line. But I think it`s an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don`t like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It`s just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same.

On directing the "ER" (1994) episode "Motherhood": "When I was directing ER, I didn`t want to stand out. Everyone else is wearing all that crap. I wanted to fit in. I didn`t want to be the odd man out. I wanted to be inside, not on the outside. When I was directing the ER thing, the emergency room guys wore the green scrubs. I wore those for a few days. Then, I wore the blue scrubs, which were the surgeons,` for a few days. When I wore the nurse`s pink scrubs, though, that`s when I became a hero on the set. The nurses didn`t think I was going to throw in with them. I ended the episode, the last two days, wearing the nurses` scrubs. When I walked on the set all the nurses applauded me. They were like, `Oh my God, he`s so cool!`"

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Even with six surgeons working there it was struggling to get that number because there is not enough theatre time to do the surgery.

This program with one surgeon is a relatively small program that I think is very sensitive to clusters of abnormal outcomes, and very serious about trying to address that. In larger programs we wonder whether they may not be so sensitive because they have many surgeons doing many more procedures.