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.'
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
To the patient, any operation is momentous.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
