Word: cardiac
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...KUMAR died, he had consented to commemorate a postage stamp for the late Raj Kapoor, great showman of Indian movies. It was going to be a glitzy Bombay function and illness was not going to deter the 90-year-old actor from celebrating a colleague's life. But a cardiac arrest did. And thus ended the six-decade career of a film laboratory assistant who became one of Bollywood's most celebrated heroes. My fondest memory of Kumar is from 1958 when he acted in one of my father's films, Mr. X, playing a man who discovers a secret...
They dip into such topics as credit card debt, cardiac health and the hazards of transporting a gravy boat to a foreign clime. Their talk is not polemical, deep or even outrageously funny. It's just comfy, lively chat, the kind you'd expect from sisters whose lives are quite different--a single career woman, a divorce, a wife who has followed her husband to Thailand and dials into the conversation via a satellite uplink (hence the name)--and yet who share an effortless, chip-proof familiarity. Perhaps because there are so many women, and quite...
First of all, the way to get five weeks of vacation is to have open-heart surgery. It is the perfect cover. Bipolar depression is a downer and TB makes your friends nervous and a hip replacement is terribly inconvenient, but cardiac surgery poses few risks, is mostly painless and has a grandeur about it that erases all obligations, social and professional. It is the Get Out of Work card. All you do is put a hand to your chest, and people hold the door open for you and help you into a rocker...
...biscuit with the boy's teeth marks in it. Now I look back, and I see pictures of the little boy and the terrible suffering in his face, and I realize that he died of a heart problem and that had he lived in my time, I, as a cardiac surgeon, probably could have cured...
...surgery under Professor Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota. One day I was invited to lend a hand on work on a heart-lung machine. That's when I became fascinated by open-heart surgery. That's what led me back to South Africa to run my own cardiac-surgery unit, and to the 1967 heart transplant. Before that, I had applied for a job in London, and again I was turned down. If I'd got it, I wouldn't have done the heart transplant. So you see my life is full of luck...