Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
America’s most famous heart surgeons once worked together and then settled across town from each other in Houston, Texas. Dr. Michael DeBakey led the cardiac division at Methodist Hospital and Dr. Denton Cooley founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962. Both were fighting an epidemic of heart disease when Dr.
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in 1967.Barnard’s triumph turned up the heat on what was then, a simmering competition between two surgeons who were probably the most famous in the world, who appeared on the covers of major magazines like Time and Life, and who palled around with famous patients like Jerry Lewis and the Duke of Windsor. Not to be outdone by a foreign doc whose skills were derided in Houston, DeBakey, who had been skeptical of transplants and had been working for years on an artificial…
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