This photo shows Dr. Zbigniew Religa keeping watch on the vital signs of a patient after a 23 hour heart surgery he conducted in 1987. In the lower right corner, you can see one of his colleagues who helped him with the surgery asleep. Dr. Religa was a pioneer of heart transplantation in Poland, and even though the surgery was considered borderline impossible at the time, he took the chance, and the operation was entirely successful. The patient in the photo would go on to outlive Dr. Religa.
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