The Transplant Experience

Apr 11, 1976 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart surgeon. NOVA explores those extraordinary days in 1968-69 when it appeared that everyone with a scalpel was doing heart transplants, and survival of ... (more)patients was measured in days.

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