But I certainly tell patients that if they go to the trouble of learning what gluten-free is and they embrace that whole lifestyle they’re probably likely to eat healthier anyway. Joseph Murray More Quotes by Joseph Murray More Quotes From Joseph Murray To the patient, any operation is momentous. Joseph Murray operationspatient 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. Joseph Murray giantserrorsscience Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. Joseph Murray kidneyssavingpatient You cannot stop the human mind from working. Joseph Murray human-mindhumansmind Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago. Joseph Murray treatsdoctorsyears 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. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table. Joseph Murray eyeorderscience 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 against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working. Joseph Murray failuresciencemean And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. Joseph Murray every-morningcreatormorning Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations. Joseph Murray jointsessentialsanimal 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 truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation - the way it emerged - it just adds to the glory of God. Personally, I've never seen a conflict. Joseph Murray growing-upcatholicbelieve I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. Joseph Murray childhooddoctorsquality The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own? Joseph Murray hostrejectionskins I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently. Joseph Murray performingskins 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 your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago. Joseph Murray coupleeyeschool I've never regretted a swim Joseph Murray never-regretswim In my experience as a clinician, as well as some studies that have been undertaken, many of the individuals who are family members have symptoms, though they may not have complained of those symptoms to their doctors, sometimes because they did not realize they were an abnormality and sometimes because they were never asked, in that circumstance, I often find in my practice that patients who go on a gluten-free diet, who themselves did not even appreciate the symptoms, often feel better. Joseph Murray health-news That's something we've shown before but (were) never able to show it in more detail with regard to the timing - the change seems to have happened around 2000. Joseph Murray health-news What was curious is the fact that it just seems to be a practice more common in African Americans, for example, who are extremely unlikely to have celiac disease, so it probably reflects a lifestyle choice as opposed to a medical reason. Joseph Murray health-news In my clinical experience I see some people go on a gluten-free diet because they genuinely feel better when they're gluten free. Sometimes it may be because they're eating less, they’re eating healthier - more fresh real foods as opposed to fast food. Joseph Murray health-news 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.' Joseph Murray livepossiblephysicswish
