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© Dorothy Hill

Everyone remembers that in South Africa in 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant. What most people don't know or remember is that the stage was first set for this at the University of Mississippi Medical Center when Dr. James D. Hardy performed the first human lung transplant in 1963. The next year he and his team transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee into a dying man. It beat 90 minutes before it stopped.

I could go on and on about the famous and near-famous people with Mississippi connections or about the events that occurred in the state, but I'll save that for the future. But when it is all said and done, it just goes to show that people have been underestimating Mississippi and Mississippians for a long, long time, and now is the time to set the record straight.

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