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

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.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

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

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.

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.