Marius barnard autobiography of malcolm

[Originally posted on my blog at http://barefootmeds.wordpress.com/201...]

I was ten years old when I learned my first bit of medical history: the first heart transplant, which was performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard.

We were not told that his little brother played a role in this world-changing surgery as well.

A year later, Dr C. Barnard died unexpectedly. I was just eleven, and could not possibly understand everything that came to light in the media frenzy, but I did learn that he had been a ladies’ man and a difficult character.

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Again, I never heard anything about his little brother.

In light of this it is probably not surprising that Marius Barnard felt the need to chronicle his own life – and perhaps not surprising that a thread of bitterness was woven into the narrative.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading about this Dr Barnard’s life.

He grew up, like his brother, in a small town called Beaufort West. His upbringing was hu