Word: debakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died. The striking thing, said DeBakey, is that not until almost 90 years after this could any surgeon have done anything more than did Beshoar...
...DeBakey heard this hitherto unpublished story from Barren Beshoar, chief of TIME'S Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other...
Heart disease is the top killer in the U.S. today, and strokes rank third, just behind cancer. But heart disease and strokes both develop from diseases of the arteries, and together they account for 75% of all U.S. deaths. The deadly statistics, contends Houston Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, make cardiovascular (heart-artery) disease the most pressing problem of modern medicine...
...DeBakey speaks with singular authority. Since 1948, the dexterous scalpel and deft needle of Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
...DeBakey went H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor to have a potentially fatal, grapefruit-sized aneurysm removed from his abdominal aorta (TIME, Dec. 25). And it was to Dr. DeBakey and Houston's Methodist Hospital that the TV producers of the U.S. and Europe turned a month ago when they wanted to let 300 million televiewers, aided by Comsat's Early Bird, watch an exquisitely delicate heart operation, with the surgeon literally holding a life in his hand. To Dr. DeBakey both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson turned when they needed a man to head committees and commissions to recommend...