Step 1 : Introduction to the question "2. I am in South Africa at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa on December 3, 1967. I am standing right next to the gurney transporting Louis Washkansky to the operating room. What historical first am I about to witness?"
...1. Heart transplant 2. Endarterectomy 3. Hip replacement 4. Hysterectomy Louis Washkansky received the world's first transplanted heart that day. The surgeon was Christiaan Barnard and the donor was a young woman killed in a motor vehicle accident. Louis unfortunately expired eighteen days after surgery, having developed pneumonia.
