2 Top S. African Heart Surgeons Moving to U.S.
From Reuters
CAPE TOWN, South Africa —
Two of South Africa’s top heart surgeons are emigrating to the United States, state-run Radio South Africa reported Wednesday.
The radio said that David Cooper and Dimitri Novitski have resigned from Cape Town’s Groote Schuur hospital, where the world’s first heart transplant was carried out by Christiaan Barnard in 1967.
The two doctors are going to work in an Oklahoma hospital where Barnard, who now divides his time between South Africa and the United States, has a post as scientist in residence.
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