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.
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.
At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.
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.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?