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The surgeons who opened the way for organ transplant surgery
English led the country's first successful heart transplant in 1979 at Royal Papworth Hospital, he passed away at the age of ...
December 3rd has always been a date marked by remarkable achievements and significant events that have shaped the course of ...
"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first ...
Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, a South African doctor working out of a little-known hospital who became an international hero by performing the first successful human heart transplant, died Sunday.
FRANKFURT — Heart-transplant surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who readily admits he became a doctor "to make money," Thursday repeated his statement that he is contented in South Africa and has "no ...
The first successful heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard at Cape Town, South African, on Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days.
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