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Denise Darvall, 25, had been killed in a car accident. But her heart would get a chance to live on in a history-making procedure. As Dr. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD performed the world's first successful heart transplant on a human, the world palpitated...
DIED. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, 78, brash, charismatic South African surgeon who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967; of an asthma attack; while vacationing in Cyprus. More dramatic than the surgery itself--Barnard called the technique "basic"--was that he proceeded when other heart-transplant surgeons, who had operated only on animals, were reluctant. An antiapartheid activist, he caused a stir when he later transplanted the heart of a young man of mixed race into a well-to-do white man. The thrice-married Barnard unabashedly enjoyed the fruits of his fame. "I love the female...
...Hong Kong-based senior writer for Fortune, Rohwer authored the 1995 book Asia Rising, which became the definitive take on the region's economic ascendancy. DIED. CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, 78, daring South African surgeon who became an international celebrity in 1967 after performing the world's first human heart transplant; in Cyprus. His patient died 18 days later, but Barnard's second transplant recipient survived for 19 months. His operations also pioneered the use of organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia...
...When journalists learned of the first human heart transplant in 1967, the story turned out to be worthy of a Hollywood script. CHRIS BARNARD was young, confident, good-looking -- a surgeon-genius from the backwoods of South Africa. His innocence and disarming honesty only added to one of the most extraordinary medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. "What happens now?" we asked him after the operation. "I don't exactly know, it's never been done before," he replied. But real life isn't always like the movies. When I spoke with Barnard a month ago, he was a lonely...
...heart transplant wasn't such a big thing surgically. The technique was a basic one. The point is that I was prepared to take the risk. My philosophy is that the biggest risk in life is not to take a risk. But the operation, and its significance as the first of its kind, took me into another world--not just professionally but personally and socially. I loved it. I love people, I love the female sex, and I like to enjoy life. I'm easy to party with. The professors in Europe couldn't understand me. I could...