Heart transplant pig to man

[Pawelk198604]

I do not know if you ever if you ever heard of the Polish cardiac surgery pioneer Professor Zbigniew Religa.

He was the first conducted in my country successful heart transplant in 1985, the first attempt to transplant the human heart in Poland took place on January 4, 1969, the patient died and doctor who tried this was compared to .....

Polish doctors were very conservative and thought heart transplants as barbaric, watch out that the procurement of a heart as murder, while others are more progressive doctors believed that the determination of brain death, can take heart, because brain death is equivalent to death of man as a being.

Professor Religa was a hardcore atheist but apparently he was very dedicated to his patients.

Apparently, when one of his patients died and there were problems with finding a donor, a professor tried to carry xenogeneic heart transplant from a pig, as a temporary solution, the operation did not succeed, and he was compared to Joseph Mengele.

Then it turned out that the pigs have a different immune system. Apparently the professor asked the Polish Ministry of Science grant for breeding transgenic pigs, but this was rejected because the Catholic Church opposed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Religa

[-Velocity-]

Professor Religa was a hardcore atheist but apparently he was very dedicated to his patients.

You might want to change your post and remove the "but apparently"- or better yet, just remove this sentence altogether. It can be seen as an implication that atheists are less likely to be compassionate, caring individuals than non-atheists, and that is offensive and bigoted. I don't know if that was your intention or not, but that's one way to read the post. The man's religious beliefs had nothing to do with any work he did, so why not just leave them out altogether?

[Pawelk198604]

You might want to change your post and remove the "but apparently"- or better yet, just remove this sentence altogether. It can be seen as an implication that atheists are less likely to be compassionate, caring individuals than non-atheists, and that is offensive and bigoted. I don't know if that was your intention or not, but that's one way to read the post. The man's religious beliefs had nothing to do with any work he did, so why not just leave them out altogether?

I'm sorry if I offended anyone:(