Medicine
- Thomas Starzl performs the first liver transplant, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- James D. Hardy performs the first lung transplant.
- June - Guy Alexandre performs the first renal transplant from a heart-beating, brain-dead donor, at Saint Pierre Hospital, Leuven, Belgium.
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“Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it’s long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)