Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murray's caring attitude led him to become interested in the fields of transplantation and plastic surgery in the first place...
...Murray said in an interview last night that this interest--which would later become the focus of his research--began when he served as a Marine Corps major in World War II at Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, and saw serious injuries that could not be treated...
...patients dying of burns, who could have survived if you could transplant skin from one person to another," Murray says...
...When Murray returned to Harvard to finish his residency after the war, hewanted to do research in the field of skintransplants. But the major work done at BrighamHospital in Boston was in kidney transplantation.In the late 1940s, the hospital was the first inthe country to host a demonstration of theartificial kidney machine developed during thewar...
...result, Murray switched his area ofresearch from skin transplants to kidneytransplants, and over the next 20 years, paved theway for the transplantation of all solid organs,such as the kidney, liver, heart, pancreas, lungand intestines...