Joseph Murray Quotes

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I've never regretted a swim

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.