In this photo provided by Stanford University shows Dr. Norman Shumway, left, performing an operation in this undated file photo in Stanford, Calif. Shumway was the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant operation in the United States and a leading pioneer in the field, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2006, of lung cancer, according to a spokeswoman at Stanford University. He was 83.. (AP Photo/Stanford University, ho)
AP - Twenty-eight years ago, Dr. Norman Shumway performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on a 56-year-old man. Although that patient died a short time later, in the years to come, the operation became the reason that thousands more were able to live. |