I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.
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.
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.
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.
We never get so near God as when we plead for others.
Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about, but I think those that are extremists, the way they are taught or the way, as I'd like to say, "brain-washed. " they're not of sound mind, They're of a different mind.
Where all life dies death lives.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?