“
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
...more
”
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
― Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
“
My passion is for scientific truth. I don’t much care about good and evil. … I care about what’s true.
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