Dr. Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Changed the Human Heart
Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922–2001) was a groundbreaking South African cardiac surgeon who forever transformed modern medicine by performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant on December 3, 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. His achievement brought global attention to South Africa and opened a new era in organ transplantation.
Barnard...