Joseph Murray Quotes.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
If you’re going to worry about what people say, you’re never going to make any progress.
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I’d spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the ‘National Geographic.’
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn’t graft permanently.
Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh’s flight across the ocean.
You cannot stop the human mind from working.
At heart, I’m a reconstructive surgeon.
Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
It’s the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.’s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It’s the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.
