Assistant Surgeon General

Famous quotes containing the words surgeon and/or general:

“The surgeon doesn’t operate without first taking off the patient’s clothes. Nor do we with the mind.”
—Muriel Box (b. 1905)

“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)