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Complication Quotes

On risks, remedies, and unintended consequences.

Several quotes here look at complication through a medical lens, including debate over whether face transplantation risk would outweigh its benefit and a firsthand account of Toxic Shock Syndrome as a rare but serious complication. One line warns that Applying a remedy to one problem can quietly provoke another.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Quotes by Thomas More

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Quotes by Nicholas Jarecki

The letters TSS that I once read in the fine print buried on the bottom of tampon boxes soon came to define me. TSS - Toxic Shock Syndrome: a potentially fatal complication of certain types of bacterial infections.

Quotes by Lauren Wasser

In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in France, said that face transplantation would be going too far. The risk of complication would far outweigh the benefits.

Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Applying Quotes

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested...

Quotes by Graham Joyce

Frequently Asked Questions

What medical topics come up in these complication quotes?
One discusses debate over whether face transplantation's risk of complication would outweigh its benefit, and another recalls Toxic Shock Syndrome as a serious, sometimes fatal complication.
Do the quotes discuss complication outside of medicine?
Yes, one compares feature filmmaking to a different kind of complication than documentary work, which comes together mainly in the Editing room.
Is there a general idea about remedies causing new problems?
Yes, one older quote observes that applying a remedy to one ailment can quietly provoke another, a pattern it calls a complication of diseases.
Does this page mention any specific medical bodies or committees?
Yes, it references a British surgical association and, separately, a French ethics panel, both weighing in around the same period on whether facial transplant surgery carried too much risk.
Is complication treated as purely negative here?
Mostly, since every example involves an unwanted side effect or risk, whether medical, creative, or Ethics-related in nature.

A different quote shifts to craft, describing feature filmmaking as its own kind of complication compared with documentary work done in the Editing room. Read together, the page treats complication as both a medical and a creative Ethics question.