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Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
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Eugene Terre'blanche, My Storie
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2010
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Imagine: Africa!
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2012
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Kleur My Lewe, My Lied
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SHIMMERstate
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2013
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65 Shades of Guilt
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2013
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A Watchmaker’s Romance with TIME
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Facing Surgery with Christ: For God's Sake, Give Christ the Scalpel!
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2007
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rolbos
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Vanessa
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2012
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“However like all little animals, it has to be nurtured and fed. It needs humour, interest, joy, love, compassion and a healthy bit of charity. It loves the unexpected and the unpredictable. It enjoys new challenges and experiences. Good wine makes it jump around a bit, good food makes it happy. Soft light make it dewy-eyed, happy memories light up its eyes. Good champagne is its preferred liquid.”
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“Wicomb?’
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard, especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance, Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard, especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance, Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
“Wicomb?’
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen
hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I
did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane
had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard,
especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly
summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a
238
baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of
them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen
you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance,
Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen
hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I
did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane
had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard,
especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly
summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a
238
baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of
them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen
you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance,
Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
“Wicomb?’
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard, especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance, Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
‘Yes, professor?’
‘Is the heart in a good condition?’
How the hell should I know? It’s been in storage for more than sixteen hours, the machine did not supply oxygen and nutrients for a while, and I did not know what the heat in the storage compartment of the aeroplane had done. Then, I thought of the stories we had heard about Barnard, especially the one in which he was faced with a patient they could not
wean off the heart-lung machine. The world-renowned professor promptly summonsed Jacques Losman to the theatre, ordering him to bring a baboon – talk about taking risks. Barnard was the biggest risk-taker of them all.
‘This heart, Professor, is fit for an Olympic athlete. It’s the finest specimen you’ll ever handle.’
Barnard stopped operating as he glanced at me. ‘Taking a chance, Wicomb?”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
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