Fifty Years: Reflections Since the First Successful Heart Transplant

“For those of us involved in heart and heart-lung transplantation, it was quite an experience to suddenly encounter an emptiness in the thorax, where moments before, a heart had been actively beating. Even a hardened person would find it difficult to control one’s inner emotions. Was this an act of meddling with the divine?”
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research