Charles Teo famous quotes

If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.
-- Charles Teo

#Thinking #Having Fun #Brain

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.
-- Charles Teo

#People #Good Enough #Social

Life to me is just so precious. I fail to see the wrong in keeping someone alive who's still got quality of life even if it's only for a few months.
-- Charles Teo

#Quality #Alive #Months

In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.
-- Charles Teo

#Mean #Unique #Stuff

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.
-- Charles Teo

#Together #Pressure #Reputation

I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.
-- Charles Teo

#Thinking #Doctors #Mind

The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?
-- Charles Teo

#Cancer #Brain #Months

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

It comes down to having fun and doing what I love.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot