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

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

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

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

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

I've never regretted a swim

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.