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.
astronomy lifetime lifetimes lives spend writer
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.'
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.
rejection skins host
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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.
failure mean science
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.
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.