Jay Wellons > Quotes

“Early in your training, there is something powerful about body fluid, sacrificial that you are willing to be bathed in it.”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“stepped down as their program director, the residents still humor me on Saturday mornings after rounds as we drink coffee and I draw arrows and boxes on the whiteboard linking their pasts to their futures, each time returning to the topic of identifying mentors on their own career journey, to seek out those with admirable qualities or desirable skill sets to incorporate into a new self.”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“There is always an applicable Shakespeare quote, even in the operating room. Perhaps especially in the operating room.”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“What was clear to me was that these young doctors needed to tell their stories to one another. To process the significance of what they were doing every day, to reckon with the feelings that they were coming home with every night. There were no easy answers. But the residents spoke of their patients with”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“I remember feeling like I had two hands full of thumbs and invincible at the same time.”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“I came to understand the importance of time itself as the fourth dimension of anatomy[...]”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

“I prefer to focus on the wonder, and let this next generation of surgeons take up the arguments, find those answers, push the field forward.”
― Jay Wellons, All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience