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...third was applying for a bursary in England and being turned down. If I'd got it, I would never have become a heart surgeon because they weren't that far advanced in heart surgery in England. The fourth was when I was studying general surgery under Professor Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota. One day I was invited to lend a hand on work on a heart-lung machine. That's when I became fascinated by open-heart surgery. That's what led me back to South Africa to run my own cardiac-surgery unit...
Barnard, as he manfully confesses, fainted at his first real operation. He was forced out of his first private practice because of local jealousies but managed to get scholarships when he needed them, including one to the University of Minnesota. There he studied for 21 years under Dr. Owen Wangensteen, who on Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull...
...Cigarettes. Shumway and Lillehei, like many of today's foremost surgeons and professors of surgery, absorbed much of what they know of the technique and exploratory spirit of their calling from the University of Minnesota's great (and lately retired, at 68) Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. So did Christiaan Barnard, who was at Minnesota in 1953-1955. Barnard, the son of a Dutch Reformed minister, had always wanted to be a doctor. His father, on a cash income of $56 a month, gave three of his four sons a university education...
Spare the Knife. Dr. Wangensteen's faith in his technique remains unshaken. In a group of 701 of his patients, many of whom had repeat freezing, there was not one death. There have been some serious complications, including two perforating gastric ulcers. But of 71 recent patients, most of them followed for 18 months, only five have needed surgery, while 26 others still have intermittent ulcer pain. The satisfactory result rate is 51 % . One reason for the difference between his record and Hitchcock's, said Dr. Wangensteen, is that his team now uses liquid that is supercooled...
Whether all the variations in results can be traced to variations in procedure is a question the doctors are not yet ready to answer. Whatever the explanation, Dr. Wangensteen is sure that his technique is worth further study, for it saves a substantial number of patients from having part of their stomachs...