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“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.”

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Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray

Joseph Murray was an American surgeon renowned for his pioneering work in organ transplantation. In 1954, he and his colleague Donald Thomas successfully performed the world's first kidney transplant, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960. more

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