Word: murrayism
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After his major work with organ transplantationwas completed, Murray concentrated his attentionon his other area of interest--plastic andreconstructive surgery, especially skintransplants and facial repair of congenital birthdefects in children. By 1970, Murray was a fullprofessor at the Medical School and was also thechair of plastic and reconstructive surgery atBrigham and Women's and Children's hospitals...
...Murray pioneered a procedure in the UnitedStates which corrected head deformities byresectioning and moving forward the bones of thehead and the face...
...Doctor Murray was quite innovative in doingtransplantive surgery on children," Dammin said...
...Dammin added that not only did Murray dogreat work as a surgeon, but he also performed theimportant task of comforting his patients, beinggentle and encouraging...
...Murray's colleagues praised his contribution tomedicine yesterday and said the Nobel Prize was anhonor he deserved...