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Christiaan Barnard Quotes Page 1 of 1 | Christiaan Barnard November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001 Nationality: South African Category: Scientist Subcategory: South African Scientist
| Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. | It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. | I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. | On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. | If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. | The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. | Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. |
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