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Blaiberg, Philip, 1909-1969

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Personal name headingBlaiberg, Philip, 1909-1969
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Associated countryEthiopia
Italy
Associated placeOudtshoorn (South Africa)
Johannesburg (South Africa)
London (England)
Birth date1909-05-24
Death date1969-08-17
Place of birthUniondale (South Africa)
Place of deathCape Town (South Africa)
AffiliationRoyal Dental Hospital
University of the Witwatersrand
South African Medical Corp
Profession or occupationDentist Heart transplant patient
Found inChristian Barnard. Colour lithograph by G. Scarfe, 1969: note (Philip Blaiberg)
The Times (London, England), 18 Aug. 1969: p. 9 (Dr Philip Blaiberg; b. May 24 1909; dentist; on the night of New Year's Day, 1968, the operation was performed [to give him a transplanted heart]; d. Aug. 18 1969)
Christiaan Barnard : the surgeon who dared, 2017: (Phiip Blaiberg; 58 at the time of his heart transplant; born in Uniondale; grew up in Oudtshoorn; attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for a year and then transfered to the Royal Dental Hospital in London to study dentistry; returned to Cape Town to set up his practice but joined the South African Medical Corp and served in Abyssinia (currently Ethiopia) and Italy in World War II; Jewish; native language was Africaans; after many years practicing dentistry in Cape Town he suffered a series of heart attacks that forced into eary retirement which was due to severe coronary heart disease; third person who receive a heart transplant on January 2, 1968; wrote about his experiences in his book Looking at my heart (1968); lived 19 months after his surgery; wife was Eileen; died on August 17, 1969; Christiaan Barnard said that his importance was that he was the first patient to live a normal life after the transplant)
   <https://books.google.com/books?id=MVZDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT296&lpg=PT296&dq=%22+Looking+at+my+heart%22+blaiberg&source=bl&ots=Wh8SgfoY3h&sig=ACfU3U0WTnpOX8H8AnFuX91bLiWT44tw6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqqP-MzP_2AhUQmHIEHZcYDbEQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=%22%20Looking%20at%20my%20heart%22%20blaiberg&f=false>
Northern Virginia Sun, volume 32, number 157, April 7, 1969: (Dr. Philip: Blaiberg; bom on May 24, 1909; attended the university in Johannesburg for a year; studied at the Royal Dental Hospital (London) for years and graduated in June 1933; returned to Cape Town and strated a practice in Robertson (town in the Cape province), which was a 150 miles from Oudtshoorn; wife was Eileen Abel (married April 5, 1936); surgery was on March 16, 1968, his father was Jacob Woolf Blaiberg (born in 1870 in Poland and moved to South Africa); had a son named Harris who died in 1961 at the age of 23 and a daughter Jill who was born September 14, 1947; shortly before the outbreak of World War II the family moved to Cape Town where he started to practice; in 1940 he enlisted as a dental officer in the South African Medical Corps; (From the book, LOOKING AT MY HEART, by Dr. Philip Blaiberg, copyright 1968 by Dr. Philip Blaiberg, published by Stein & Day ; excerpt from the author's book Looking at my heart (1968))
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New York Times website, April 6, 2022: posted August 17, 1969 (Dr. Philip Blaiberg; died August 17, 1969 in Capetown; world's longest surviving heart transplant patient; 60 years old)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/18/archives/dr-blaiberg-dies-19-months-after-historic-heart-transplant-blaiberg.html>
Associated languageeng