Ellsworth Wareham after the first such procedure was performed. Leonard Bailey, the surgeon who transplanted a baboon heart into a baby at Loma Linda University in 1984, trained under Wareham as a medical student in the late 1960s. The child, Baby Fae, was born prematurely with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and Bailey’s surgery made international headlines. Loma Linda, Wareham's home town has been described as USA's only Blue Zone, an area where the longevity is appreciably higher than the national average and one of the four places in the world to have a substantial proportion of humans live past 100 years. The
The Heart of a Distant Forest En Fjarren Skog, Raben & Sjogren, 1988; Trade paperback, Peachtree Southern Classics, 1991 Trade paperback, University of Georgia Press, 2005 The Heart of a Distant Forest "The Heart of a Distant Forest" (1984) was the first novel published by U.S. author Philip Lee Williams. It remains in print 25 years after publication. Retired junior college history professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in north central Georgia to spend the last year of his life. Diagnosed with a terminal disease, he has decided to forego life-extending treatments so he can focus on learning what he