DR IAN MARAIS: “How I became a surgeon”

DR IAN MARAIS: “How I became a surgeon”

INTRODUCTION:  ORAL HISTORY by Walt Mapham

Ian’s oral history of his own life in South Africa and the lives of people around him is like the passing down of a family’s heirloom. It provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the past by putting small history (personal) in context of big history (seismic events).

Dr Ian Marais Graduation 1967 Dr Ian Marais Laparoscopic Surgery