Word: murrayism
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Upon his discharge in 1947, Murray joined an experimental transplant group at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he had served during his residency. In 1954, he performed the first human kidney transplant between a pair of identical twins...
...Kidney transplants seem so routine today, but the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean," Murray wrote...
...following years, Murray fine-tuned the transplant procedure, examining the various methods of acquisition of organs and the prevention of an immunologic response against the donated organ. In particular, he studied drug and X-ray treatments as methods of modifying the body's response to foreign tissue...
...Murray performed the first kidney transplant on non-identical twins, and over the following 22 years, he conducted successful pancreas, liver, heart, lung and heart-and-lung transplants...
Brigham & Women's Hospital surgeon Dr. Nicholas L. Tilney, who worked with Murray in the 1960's and is currently a professor of surgery at the Medical School, says Murray was one of his "great role models...