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A Successful Surgery

This interesting image from 1987 shows a heart surgeon sitting with his patient after a 23-hour long heart transplant. It's a fascinating image for several reasons, one of which is the surgeon's assistant, slumped sleeping in the corner of the room.

The patient wasTadeusz Żytkiewicz, the former Minister of Health of Poland. He went on to be the longest living person to have had a heart transplant in the country until he sadly passed away in 2009 from lung cancer. The image is a testament to the incredible medical feats surgeons like this carry out every day across the world.

GOD BLESS THOSE HONEST, DEDICATED, HARD WORKING, DOCTORS & NURSES!