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Retired Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg lived longer than any other heart-transplant patient, 191 months. But last week his 22-year-old daughter Jill belittled her father's borrowed time and blasted the operation and Surgeon Christiaan Barnard. "I personally think heart transplants are not worthwhile. I saw my father suffer." She blamed Dr. Barnard for urging the family to make money out of the operation. The resultant publicity, she said, "set my life back by more than two years...
...LIFE by Dr. Christiaan Barnard and Curtis Bill Pepper. 402 pages...
...hard to write the life story of a hero. It is even harder if you yourself are the hero. South Africa's renowned heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard did not entirely surmount this dilemma. In fact, it seems at times as if he or his collaborator, a onetime Newsweek correspondent in Rome, found it hard to choke self-admiration down into a deprecatory gruffness. The poor boy who made good, the youth who kept his head when all men doubted him, the Walter Mitty syndrome-all the treacherous cliches of autobiography are there. What emerges from them, however...
...driven, young Christiaan learned to study after hours, to win the mile race even though he had no money for track shoes and had to run barefoot, to take degrees in two years that normally took five. With apparent total recall, he reports childhood and adolescent conversations and the courtship of his first wife, a nurse at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital. "Our hands, which the night before had been pressed upon one another in love, now met and touched in sterile gloves...
...promote his autobiography One Life, South Africa's peripatetic surgeon Christiaan Barnard made light of his role as the jet set's darling. "To be honest, I enjoy my popularity," said Barnard. "But I remind myself of all the people who contribute to a single success in a field like heart surgery. It's like an orchestra-one man takes all the bows...