Biography of dr christian barnard
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In , an obscure cardiac surgeon in South Africa became an instant household name and the name Christiaan Barnard was indelibly linked to a feat once thought impossible – transplanting the human heart.
PATH TO MEDICINE
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was born on 8 November in a small town called Beaufort West in South Africa. Many have speculated that his decision to pursue a medical career, particularly one in cardiac surgery, was motivated by the death of his five-year-old brother Abraham from heart disease. However, Barnard later said that his initial attraction to medicine was his desire to make money. He graduated in from the University of Cape Town Medical School, placing near the middle of the class. After an internship at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, he worked as a general practitioner in the rural town of Ceres. In , he married a nurse at Groote Schuur, Aletta Louw. A few years later in , Barnard took a junior medical post at City Hospital, then won a scholarship f
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In spite of intense financial challenges, Adam and Maria Barnard ensured that their sons were well educated. Chris Barnard studied at the University of Cape Town Medical School where he graduated as a doctor with an MBChB degree in
After completing his internship at Groote Schuur Hospital, Barnard began his professional career as a GP in the small town of Ceres, a Cape fruit farming region named after the goddess of agriculture. On the recommendation of Erhardt Joubert, Barnard was invited to locum in the practice of Dr. O’Malley (who would shortly be paying his family in Ireland an extended visit) where Joubert had already been practicing for some three months.
Ceres was a good place for the young Dr. Barnard to start his medical career. He and Joubert had much in common: they had been in the same class at university and, in many respects, were cut from the same cloth. Both came from tough Afrikaner stock, both grew up in a rural environment and both followed a
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Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon (–)
"Chris Barnard" redirects here. For other uses, see Chris Barnard (disambiguation).
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8&#;November &#;&#; 2&#;September ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.[1][2] On 3 December , Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system.[3][4][5][6] Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading.[7][8][9] Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at