Word: jordaan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Questions. South Africa's Peggy Jordaan had heard talk of a possible transplant several weeks before the event. "So," she says, "I got hold of a couple of the boys-surgical residents -and asked them a few questions. I wanted to know how the heart might be excised, and then how the new heart would be sutured in place. I also did a bit of reading up in the library." Like the rest of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's team, Peggy Jordaan had been on standby for three weeks, and was at home on the memorable Saturday night...
...nervous," says Peggy. The big moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital museum...