A Quote by Joseph Murray

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

Joseph Murray

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Heart Surgeon

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Joseph Murray
American - Scientist
April 1, 1919 - November 26, 2012

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

Magdi Yacoub

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Luke Bryan

I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.

Rachel McAdams

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

Max Lucado

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

Magdi Yacoub

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

Jane Lynch

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

Nicholas Gonzalez

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

Larry Bucshon

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Magdi Yacoub

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

Ernest L. Boyer

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

Tim Minchin

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

Marsden Wagner

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Eva Herzigova

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Philip Yancey

I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.