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.

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

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?

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

I've never regretted a swim

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