American cardiac surgeon (1918–2008) who performed the first pediatric heart transplant in 1967, just three days after Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in South Africa. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Sinai Hospital of Detroit letterhead, August 7, 1978. Dr. Kantrowitz writes to Dennis Cooper, in full: “Thank you for your letter of July 16th. I am pleased to learn that you are an FAA traffic controller. I am a pilot and we depend on you fellows all the time. You have done a marvelous job. The major difficulty that I had in becoming a physician was one of money. My family did no quite have enough money to send all of us to school so much of the time I had to work while I was in college and medical school. This hasn’t been altogether bad, it certainly gave me a feeling of what it is like to be a workingman.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one of which lightly passes through two letters of the signature, and light toning. RRAuction COA.
