Magdi Yacoub
Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub OM FRSis a British-Egyptian cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth16 November 1935
CityCairo, Egypt
CountryEgypt
oranges
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
admiration dad died early fact heart motivated
I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
belong consider privileged
I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
dad boys egypt
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.