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...Face the World. Barnard's biography conveys something of the real drama of medicine and particularly of the drama of his first heart transplant. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was a sprightly, funny, thorny man, furious at his helplessness and cheerfully willing to put his heart in Barnard's hands. The book captures both the spirit of this crotchety victim and the excitement of that extraordinary operation -even though the prose, at key moments, tends to overflow like a sliced-open artery...
...book ends with Washkansky's death, after only 18 days of new life, and Barnard's undaunted response: "I'm going to America and appear on Face the Nation. I'm going to face the world -and then come back and do a transplant on Dr. Blaiberg...
...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...
...certification made by physicians who are not involved in any possible transplant...
Beyond mere survival, Russell has set another noteworthy record for heart-transplant recipients. None of the others has worked so strenuously at his old job-and taken on other tasks besides. Russell, a skilled carpenter who teaches industrial arts at a boys' junior high, repaired the roof of his two-story house ten months after his operation. He keeps busy on remodeling jobs or making furniture-except when he is touring the countryside to give speeches about his heart transplant. Last month Russell, who has two children living at home, found room in his new heart for still another...