Christiaan Barnard Quotes

#1. Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Christiaan Barnard

#2. 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

#3. The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Christiaan Barnard

#4. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

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#5. 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.

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#6. On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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