The Amazing Christiaan Barnard

This is the story of African's excellent cardiac surgeon who did Christian Bernard, the first human - human heart transplant. He was born on 8th November 1922 in Beaufort, west of Cape Province in South Africa. He grew up in West Beaufort and his family is not rich. His father Adam Barnard was a pastor of the church and his mother Maria played a church organ. Christian Bernard lost one of his four brothers Adam as he was suffering from heart disease. Adam died when he was five years old. In 1940 he graduated from Beaufort West High School.

One of my earliest childhood memories was to listen to the surgery by Dr. Christian Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on the radio. This quirky hospital name attracted my attention of youth (meaning Afrikans and my mother tongue "Great Barn"). But it is possible that I was really impressed (as it is now), that is, remove the mind from a deceased person and port it to another person. And he will continue to live. His patient Louis Washkansky (I still remember his name today) survived 18 days, but in the coming decades the intervention became more successful. People with a donor's mind can now expect a normal life. Transplantation of almost all organs, not just the heart, is still a complicated operation, but it is becoming everyday in many ways

In 1967, a South African surgeon, Dr. Christian Bernard, transplanted the heart into the body of another person in Cape Town. In early December, Dr. Bernard's surgical team canceled the heart of a 25-year-old woman who died in a car accident and placed it on the chest of Louis Washkansky of Louis Waws. Kansky is a 55-year-old man who died of a heart attack. The patient survived for 18 days. Dr. Bernard learned a lot from the study of Stanford University. This first clinical heart transplantation experience spurred the world's bad reputation and many surgeons chose treatment immediately. However, the number of heart transplants declined from 100 in 1968 to 18 in 1970, as many patients died soon. People recognize that the main problem is the body's natural tendency to reject new organizations.