LOOKING AT MY HEART

Dr. Blaiberg, Professor Barnard of Johannesburg's second and longest surviving transplant, tells his own story in somewhat greater detail than it has had in all its worldwide, klieg-lit coverage. Following the incidentals of his earlier life, marriage, and practice as a London-trained dentist, comes the first severe coronary at 45, to be followed 12 years later by a collapse with a second, grim prognosis. The 74 antiseptically sealed-off days following the operation are recorded in detail; his return home; and the recent threat seemingly averted when he came down with hepatitis. Some grateful sentiment to be sure, but on the whole this is far less self-indulgent, more clinical, interesting and reassuring than Yehuda Kesten's A Heart Patient's Diary (McGraw-Hill, p. 1018).