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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...
Murray's character, particularly with patients, was warm, Tilney says, and he added that Murray was always a gentleman...
Nwither Mudge nor Brigham and Women's heart surgeon and Professor of Surgery Nicolas L. Tilney '58 could say why Bouener continued to reject his heart in spite of treatment with sophisticated immunosupressant drugs...
...However, Tilney said at the time of the operation, only 50 percent of heart transplant recipients could be expected to survive. "There are too many variables to be able to predict whether or not a patient will accept the new heart, but Boucher was moribund; he would have died [much earlier] without the operation...
Medical researchers, however, have convincing arguments for the need to use animals. "You can't name a significant medical advance in the last fifty years which hasn't used animals in experimentation to a certain extent," Tilney explains. He says that sacrifices are necessary for the continued progress of medical science...