The sordid history of Australian heart transplants

The rigmarole of constant checks and consent forms in modern hospitals can be tiring, but as medical historian Dr John Carmody notes, it may be preferable to the alternative. He casts an eye back to the late ‘60s, where Australia's first heart transplants revealed the wild—and occasionally unethical—side of surgery.
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