Itin vaizdingai, sudominančiai net tuo, ko nesitikėtum domėtis. Ir kaip biografija ir kaip neitikėtinai įdomus medicinos istorijos pasakojimas. - “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE” - “The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher”—whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice—was paid more than its surgeons.” - “Lister understood that being in a hospital could be a terrifying experience and followed his own golden rule: “Every patient, even the most degraded, should be treated with the same care and regard as though he were the Prince of Wales himself.” - "Fitzharris: I'll tell this story. Going back to Robert Liston, so he used to hold these knives, these bloody knives in his mouth as he was switching instruments to really underline how far we've come. And one time as he was operating so quickly, he accidentally took off his assistant's finger and as he was switching blades, he cut the coat of a spectator and it was said that the assistant died of gangrene, the patient died of gangrene and a spectator died right then and there of fright. And it's jokingly referred to as the only operation with a 300% mortality rate. So if you're going to fail, you should fail big."