Last Night in the OR Quotes

“Eventually I learned that even when the truth becomes evident, it isn’t always relevant.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“I figured that if I could stuff a few cigarettes in every pack with loads, my mom would never know which ones might explode or when, and so she’d have to quit out of sheer terror.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“dime coffee machine in the cafeteria”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“As the volume of cases grew, influenced in large part by Medicare approval of the procedure, Pittsburgh became the mecca for liver transplantation. Surgeons from all over the world arrived in droves to learn how we did it.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“He’d been a full-fledged surgeon in his country but he wanted to do a residency program in the U.S. “Oh, to be the best,” he said.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“Jacques Cousteau and that in 1960 he told a reporter for Time magazine, “Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

“Such power, to make someone feel safe in the face of something so scary. I look back now and wonder if I had a sense of that power then.”
― Bud Shaw, Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey