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And so on this day, forty six years ago, in a nine hour long operation , the first human heart transplant was carried out in Cape Town.
And...in a twist of fate that a fiction writer would not dare to make up...well...you make up your own mind...Lucien reads "The Wife's Story"
I recommend this superb film with Rupert Graves as Chris Barnard, called "The First New Heart"
Lucien, I've been following your series and watched the film clip and was stunned. I grew up white in the Southern US during the civil rights era. Young enough not to experience the worst, but old enough to remember and fear . My parents were not racists, but Christians who taught me that "Jesus loves the little children, red and yellow, black and white. They are precious in his sight." As I grew and read, I read Dr. Barnard's biography and heard various accounts of his success. Apparently I knew he was South African, but I mistakenly believed that he was black. This bothers me. I think I may have fallen prey to a bit of revisionist history. It happens you know. In trying to set the record straight, sometimes the plumb line gets moved. Anyway, thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteWow. Watching the movie. I didn't realize Dr. Barnard had rheumatoid arthritis. My son, aged 20, has had rheumatoid since age 10.
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