Now in his eighties, Dr Marius Barnard is still campaigning to improve medical and financial health through insurance. Edward Murray talks to the father of critical illness policies.
Recovering from recent major surgery and having struggled against prostate cancer since before the turn of the millennium, Dr Marius Barnard is taking life a little slower these days. However his brain still bubbles with ways of improving people's quality of life and strengthening the fragile marriage that exists between their medical and financial health. At the age of 83 Dr Barnard is no less the radical now than he was when he helped perform the world's first human-to-human heart transplant back in 1967 or when dreamt up and helped design the first critical illness policy sold in 1...
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