Transplant record - Carry donor card

When Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant in December, 1967, in South Africa, the operation was regarded as a great victory for science, much as the first moon landing would two years later.

Barnard achieved close to rock star status and became an international celebrity. Yet the idea of an organ transplant, regarded as either a miracle or a kind of magic that half-century ago, has become unremarkable.