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Christiaan Barnard
(8 Nov 1922 - 2 Sep 2001)
South African surgeon.
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Science Quotes by Christiaan Barnard (7)
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
— Christiaan Barnard
In Janie B. Butts and Karen Rich, Nursing Ethics (2005), 59.
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
— Christiaan Barnard
What They Said (1970), 374.
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
— Christiaan Barnard
In M. P. Singh, Quote Unquote: A Handbook of Quotations (2007), 131.
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
— Christiaan Barnard
In 'People', Time (31 Oct 1969).
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known ... [and] ... On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
In Janie B. Butts and Karen Rich, Nursing Ethics (2005), 59.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
— Christiaan Barnard
Quoted in Patricia T. O'Conner, 'Recovery Is Ennobling, Suffering Is Not', New York Times (28 Apr 1985 ), BR9.
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
— Christiaan Barnard
Attributed.
