Booklet - Illustrated Booklet, Norm Smith, A heart is better than a spade: the story of a heart transplant patient, 1998

Historical information

The author had a heart transplant (surgeon Don Esmore) at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne August 2nd, 1990, the 53rd patient to do so. Profit from sales of the book were donated to the Heart & Lung Transplant Trust (Vic)

Significance

Of significance as it relates heart transplantation from the patients point of view

Physical description

Bound book, cover has a background of an ECG (electrocardiogram) tracing [black ink on pink graph paper] Title is printed above and author below [black ink] two playing cards: the aces of hearts and spades.

Inscriptions & markings

previous catalogue number handwritten [black ink] at top right of front cover

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