The dramatic race to transplant the first human heart spanned two
years, three continents and five cities against a backdrop of
searing tension, scientific brilliance, ethical controversy, racial
strife and emotional turmoil. It culminated in a terrifying moment
in the early hours of 3 December 1967 when, in a cramped operating
theatre in a Cape Town hospital, Professor Chris Barnard stared
into an empty cavity from which he had just removed a heart. He
knew that he had only minutes left to make history and save the
life of a 55-year-old man by filling the gaping hole in his chest
with a heart which had just been beating inside a 25-year-old
woman. Every Second Countsis the story of this gripping race to
conquer the greatest of medical challenges. It also reveals the
truth about the man at the centre of it all, whose turbulent life
story was just as gripping. The kind of true story that would be
dismissed as far-fetched if presented as fiction, it combines an
utterly compelling portrait of cutting-edge science with raw human
drama, and shows how the course of medicine itself was changed for
ever.
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