Some people say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and we've seen many examples of that.

People protesting a rock concert only to bring more attention to the artist, launching them to superstardom.

People trying to get a book band only to push it onto the bestsellers list.

A proud heart surgeon in Australia might think that being covered by a magazine as a local

success story couldn't do much harm. Unfortunately for him, sometimes one person's success can attract

people who don't want to work for what they have. They just want to take it from someone else

and they don't care who gets hurt.

This is Monsters. Chang Yam-Him was born in Shanghai, China, November 21 to 1936 to Australian-born parents of Chinese heritage.

He was given the English name Victor Peter Chang.

His early years were marked by upheaval.

When the Japanese invaded Shanghai, his family moved to Hong Kong and then Burma,

continually trying to escape the increasing violence.

Eventually, after the Japanese surrendered, the family moved back to Hong Kong where Victor's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She passed away when he was only 12.

The loss of his mother deeply influenced his decision to pursue medicine, driven by a desire to

alleviate human suffering. Victor's father sent him and his sister Francis to Sydney, Australia, in

51. Victor excelled academically, graduating from the University of Sydney with a medical degree in

1962. He trained under medical degree in 1962.

He trained under renowned surgeons in England and the United States, mastering the emerging

field of open heart surgery. By the 1970s, he returned to Australia, joining St. Vincent's Hospital

in Sydney. There, he became a leading figure in cardiovascular surgery,

co-founding the National Cardiac Transplant Unit in 1984. Victor's innovations in heart valve

transplantation and his development of the artificial heart valve crafted from titanium and

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