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jayce1066 said:
Dr. Michael DeBakey (proposed the MASH concept during WW II)

Wasn't he the heart surgeon who put in the first artifical heart?

(I'm too lazy to Wiki it. :D )
 
TE999 said:
Wasn't he the heart surgeon who put in the first artifical heart?

(I'm too lazy to Wiki it. :D )

Denton Cooley implanted the first artificial heart. He and DeBakey had been working together on the project. They had a major falling-out and mostly ignored each other for almost forty years.
 
jayce1066 said:
Denton Cooley implanted the first artificial heart. He and DeBakey had been working together on the project. They had a major falling-out and mostly ignored each other for almost forty years.

That must have been one hellacious argument!

Think what they would have accomplished if they had stayed a team.
 
TE999 said:
That must have been one hellacious argument!

Think what they would have accomplished if they had stayed a team.

I thought it was Dr. Christian Barnard on Philip Blyburg(sp).

Have a heart.
 
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