This is Dr Religa after a 23 hour heart transplant surgery in 1987. His colleague is asleep in the corner.

Dr. Religa’s patient was 88 at the time and outlived him by a few years. National Geographic chose this photo as the photo of the year in 1987. He was the forefront of heart transplants in Poland at the time.

My account is 10 years old. I’m that’s plenty of time to have seen this

Usually that means you should probably do something besides reddit sometimes. I've never seen this picture before.

This has to be 9 billionth time this image has been posted here

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