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
definitely egypt environment great leaving love loved medicine people science worth
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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.
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.
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.
fashion medicine able
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
children heart target
I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.