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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise Of Laziness | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...physicians' phone lines with inquiries about Celebrex and Vioxx, two examples of a heavily advertised new class of analgesics called COX-2 inhibitors that are supposed to be easier on the stomach than aspirin. Some folks wanted to discontinue their medication; others just needed to hear that the potential cardiac threat was only theoretical and not proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Your Prescription Pills? | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Heart To Heart | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Heart To Heart | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

DISHEARTENING Benefits still outweigh risks for 750,000 U.S. patients with an implanted cardiac device. But new stats give pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 27, 2001 | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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