This is Tadeusz Zytkiewicz — the first person in Poland to receive a heart transplant — holding a picture of himself and the performing doctor, Zbigniew Religa, with his colleague, seen sleeping in the corner. The difficult surgery took 23 hours
and Dr. Religa stayed up to monitor the patient’s vitals. The photo, taken by American photographer James Stanfield, was chosen to by National Geographic to be the best picture of 1987.
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