Joseph Murray

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

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 have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

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