Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray
Joseph Edward Murraywas an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 April 1919
CountryUnited States of America
across flight seem
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.
giants rooms realizing
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.
saving kidneys patient
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.
couple school eye
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.
dedicating morning start work
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.