Joseph Murray Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“You cannot stop the human mind from working.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”