On December 3, 1967 the World’s first human to human heart transplant was performed at the renowned Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The operation was considered a succes and a medical milestone. The man who performed this feat of pioneering surgery and led the world into an era of sopisticated medical advances was Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who dared. (tourist leaflet)
I knew that Christiaan Barnard, from the familie-tree Barnard (we lost the “h” apparently somewhere in france a couple of ages ago) lived in South-Africa, but still by coincidence I happen to pass his memorial museum in Cape Town. I decided to have a look.
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