Magdi Yacoub Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Magdi Yacoub:

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


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The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#25b3ada5

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#4d543f5a

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#52a3f35d

I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#e7294bbe

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#9f60afa3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#bc78de8e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#308cca9a

Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
~Magdi Yacoub


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#4d1fa9a9

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
~Magdi Yacoub


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#99c2deff

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
~Magdi Yacoub


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/magdi-yacoub-quotes/#bdab37f4

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