“It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric...” — Magdi Yacoub Quote

“It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.”

“If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.”

“Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.”