Victor Chang
Victor Chang was one of the greatest heart surgeons of all time and saved many lives with his many great surgical skills.
Victor Chang had Australian born Chinese parents and was born in Shanghai, China in 1936. Sadly only at the age of twelve he lost his mother to cancer, that was when he decided to become a doctor.
3 years later In 1953 Chang came to Australia to complete his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers College in Lewisham, Sydney. He then went to Sydney University and left with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree and spent most of his career at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney. Soon after he came back to Australia in 1972 to the elite St Vincent’s cardiothoracic team to set about developing an artificial heart valve and
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On The 23rd of February 1984 Chang successfully transplanted a heart into a 39 year old shearer, now he had successfully completed his first ever heart transplant A few weeks past and on the 8th of April \ this special moment in history was repeated when a 14 year old named Fiona Coote, I girl from Tamworth in NSW who then had Australia’s second heart transplant. Chang also was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia and was awarded its highest degree of M.D. Honoris Causa for "scholarly achievement and humanitarian endeavour" from the University of New South Wales in 1986 which adds to his total of 4 great achievements. (Victor Chang, 2014) (Victor Chang, 2014)
Sadly, in the streets of Sydney on the 4th of July, 1991 two Malaysian assailants ran their car into Chang’s vehicle. After forcing him to pull over they demanded money. When he refused, they gunned him down, killing him where he stood. This attack was part of an unsuccessful extortion plan to force Chang to pay $3 million. Two of the men responsible were caught and sentenced to prison and a third man testified against them and was later deported.
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I can tell you that Dr. D is a pioneer in the field of heart surgery. His work saw the first artificial heart from the drawing board to the operating table. I can tell you facts because I actually looked them up for a high school English paper back in the day when papers weren't about insight, but rather people and places and all those objective matters. I wrote to Dr. D and got a form letter and a whole bunch of information about his life and trials that they send to other freaks who want to be cardiothoracic surgeons at one point or another. I still have that information somewhere, tucked away with the caduceus my brother bought me when I graduated from high school and entered college as a pre-med student.
Frieson, Tommy. “Timeline of Historical Events Significant Milestones in Organ Donation and Transplantation.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources & Services Administration, 2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2014. .