He once commented, after visiting an early renal transplant patient, that it was the first time he had been in a hospital ward. Sir Roy Calne, who worked in our laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham in 1960-61 as a Surgical Research Fellow, and I frequently visited them in Tuckahoe, New York, to discuss prospective trial drugs. We, who were working on these problems, all knew each other and met as often as we could to exchange ideas and hot news from the laboratory. For recreation, I have always been a physical enthusiast. As a family we have camped, hiked, trekked, or backpacked over portions of five continents.
Competitive tennis remains fun.
Our extended family, with 11 grandchildren, gets together frequently during the year, and always every summer on Martha's Vineyard Island in Massachusetts. We have been blessed in our lives beyond my wildest dreams. My only wish would be to have ten more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the National Geographic .