But so much worse was South African doctor Christiaan Barnard, who read about the dog head experiment in 1962. He decided to do it for himself that very afternoon in his hospital, remarking, ‘Anything those Russians can do, we can do, too,’ in a way that would have been acceptable if you were talking about knitting or making a nice pie but not hacking off dogs’ heads, especially not in a normal hospital with human patients who needed medical attention.
