Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard
“My philosophy is that the biggest risk in life is not to take a risk.”
Dr. Christiaan Neethling barnard (November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world’s first open heart transplant . the world’s first open heart transplant operation was performed on 3 December 1967 in an operation lasting nine hours and using a team of thirty persons. The patient was 55 years old and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. The transplant heart came from a young woman, killed in a road accident. Patient survived the operation and lived for eighteen days.
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