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1988 Photo Contest - Science & Technology - 2nd prize
Photographer

James L. Stanfield

National Geographic

01 January, 1987

Amidst a tangle of wires Dr. Zbigniew Religa anxiously watches a monitor to see how his patient responds after a heart transplant. He has just completed the second of two transplants in 21 hours.

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