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
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Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.
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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.