Quotes by Christiaan Barnard - Page 1

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Inspirational
Life
Moving On
Recovery
Suffering
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The individual is the brain, not the heart.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Brain
Heart
Individuality
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I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Animal Rights
Vegetarian
Vivisection
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It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Heart
Heart Transplant
Worms
Bury
Devoured
Infinitely
Transplant
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Science
Monday
Motivation
Renowned
Saturday
South Africa
Africa
Surgeon
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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 / Surgeon
Life
Health
Medical
Believe
Human Life
Inventing
Advance
Discoveries
Fast
Extend
Shorten
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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 / Surgeon
Life
Science
Alleviate
Goal
Prime
Suffering
Treatment
Life Your Only
Does
Stopped
Prolong
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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 / Surgeon
Running
Fitness
Bread
Calories
Exercise
Massage
Overweight
Parlor
Crust
How Far
Per
Mile
Pound
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I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Technology
Believe
Suffering
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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 / Surgeon
Men
Heart
Rivers
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
Christiaan Barnard / Surgeon
Animal
Heart
Sleep
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