A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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.
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.
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
Most societies die of suicide, not attack.
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.
I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.