From his childhood in South Africa to his education and marriage in
England and his eventual career in Israel, renowned cardiac surgeon
Professor Joseph Borman narrates the highlights of his highly
accomplished life and career with wit and humanity. Borman s many
contributions to Israeli medicine and society include the emergency
surgery he performed on the critically injured soldier Doron Lancet
during the 1967 Six-Day War, which saved the life of the man who would
go on to become the leader of the Israeli team that helped map the human
genome. Always focused on ethics above all, Borman relates dilemmas
such as the choice of an Arab recipient for a heart donated by the
family of a reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces killed by an
Arab terrorist. Professor Borman also recounts the interesting stories
of some of his patients and describes the roots trip he and his wife
have taken with their children to the ancestral Eastern European towns
where their parents were born and lived.
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