Encore: Organ Transplant | A Matter of Life and Death | 2

American Innovations

Wondery

Science, Kids & Family, Steven Johnson, Education For Kids, History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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By the early 1960s, surgeons have proven that it's possible to transplant kidneys and lungs. Now, with heart disease still the leading cause of death, they've set their sights on performing the first human heart transplant. But first, they've got to overcome the ethical, legal, and surgical challenges of removing a donor's heart before it stops beating for good.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations,
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0:14.5	A note to listeners, this episode originally aired in 2020.
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0:25.0	It's December 23rd, 1959.
0:29.0	Five years to the day, since Dr. Joseph Murray made history
0:33.0	by performing the first successful human kidney transplant.
0:37.0	Since then, little progress has been made on transplanting other organs,
0:41.0	but that's about to change.
0:44.0	Good boy.
0:45.0	At the Stanford Hospital Center in Palo Alto, California,
0:49.0	a 36-year-old surgeon named Norm Shumway and Jex and anesthetic
0:53.0	into a 40-pound dog, one of several kept here in the hospital's research lab.
0:58.0	Shumway strokes the dog's head as it slips into unconsciousness.
1:02.0	Then, he turns to his surgical partner, 30-year-old Dick Lauer,
1:06.0	who stands over another anesthetized dog on an adjacent operating table.
1:11.0	You ready, Dick?
1:12.0	Ready.
1:13.0	For the past year, Shumway and Lauer have been coming to this lab
1:17.0	to perform heart surgery experiments.
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