And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator..

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently..

Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago..

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 ….

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments..

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 y….

You cannot stop the human mind from working..

It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once….

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations..

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This sp….

Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific tr….

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 ….

I've never regretted a swim.

To the patient, any operation is momentous..