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Now 89, he moved to the UK after medical school in Cairo, becoming the UK’s most famous transplant surgeon. Yacoub is a flamboyant publicity hound, prone to photo ops with Royals and “daring” surgical stunts that earned him international condemnation. Articles state he put a baboon’s heart into a child; did open-heart surgery on a terrorist; and did a heart transplant on a 10-day old infant, sparking global rebuke from surgeons. 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