摘要
On 3 December 1967,in Groote Shuur Hospital in Cape Town,South Africa,medical history was made.a large medical,nursing,and technical team led by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human to human heart transplant.The patient,Louis Washkansky,received the heart of a young woman killed in a car accident.This led to unprecedented media coverage.Indeed,this first heart transplant was the world’s most widely reported medical event ever,resulting in the celebrity status of a previously unknown physician.
