I do not know if you ever if you ever heard of the Polish cardiac surgery pioneer Professor Zbigniew Religa.
He was the first conducted in my country successful heart transplant in 1985, the first attempt to transplant the human heart in Poland took place on January 4, 1969, the patient died and doctor who tried this was compared to .....
Polish doctors were very conservative and thought heart transplants as barbaric, watch out that the procurement of a heart as murder, while others are more progressive doctors believed that the determination of brain death, can take heart, because brain death is equivalent to death of man as a being.
Professor Religa was a hardcore atheist but apparently he was very dedicated to his patients. I once watched an interview with Professor Religa and he said that he is an atheist because I do not believe in the goodness of God, because if God is good then why allow children and teens who have not had the opportunity to experience the joys of life outside the walls of the hospital?
Apparently, when one of his patients died and there were problems with finding a donor, a professor tried to carry xenogeneic heart transplant from a pig, as a temporary solution, the operation did not succeed, and he was compared to Joseph Mengele.
Then it turned out that the pigs have a different immune system. Apparently the professor asked the Polish Ministry of Science grant for breeding transgenic pigs, but this was rejected because the Catholic Church opposed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Religa
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/thr ... pig-to-man
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122819526
15 Oct 2014, 1:11 pm
