Encore: Organ Transplant | The Heart Race | 3

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 1967, an unlikely surgeon performs the first human heart transplant – and shocks the world. As others race to replicate his achievement, one surgical team makes a mistake that could spell the end of organ transplants in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations,
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0:14.8	A note to listeners, this episode originally aired in 2020.
0:19.3	Wondery.
0:22.3	Wondery.
0:25.3	Richmond, Virginia, 1966.
0:32.1	In a prep room at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital,
0:35.4	a team of surgeons prepares to enter the operating room.
0:39.1	Moving quickly, they scrub their hands with disinfectant soap
0:42.4	and slip into their blue surgical gowns.
0:45.2	Urging them on is a stocky, dark-haired bundle of energy,
0:48.6	Dr. David Hume.
0:50.3	He's the hospital's head of surgery and director
0:52.6	of its organ transplant program.
0:55.0	Come on, everybody.
0:56.0	We could lose this one at any moment.
0:57.6	Anybody seen the lower?
0:58.9	Right on cue, Dick Lauer enters the prep room.
1:05.2	He's the hospital's lead cardiac surgeon.
1:07.9	And like most good surgeons, he's unflappable,
	...

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