So there he was...
...this anxious, proud, focused young surgeon...
...permission had been given to him by the Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town to perform a heart transplant...
...the first heart transplant in Africa...
...probably the first in the world if he was quick enough because the Americans, -including the people who had trained him- , were snapping at his heels...
He had a willing patient...
...he had a team of some of the best physicians, surgeons, nurses and technicians in South Africa...
...he just had to wait for someone else to die...
Click the 'play button' below to hear Lucien read an excerpt from "One Life" by Chris Barnard.
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