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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite expounds the genius of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey...
...health had been declining in recent years, and just before Christmas he went to Houston's Methodist Hospital, where Dr. Michael DeBakey performed extensive cardiovascular surgery. While he was convalescing at his home in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Rose caught a cold, which rapidly developed into fatal lobar pneumonia...
...like DeBakey, Ravdin and Gibbon seem to take on the proportions of demigods [May 28], especially to those of us who are now studying to take a crack at medicine. I recently had the privilege of hearing Dr. DeBakey speak on his work in cardiovascular surgery. The work that he described is nothing short of amazing. In times such as these, when so many advances are being made in surgery, it is difficult to remember that these men are not gods but mortals. This work is not a cure-all for all occlusive artery diseases, but one must admit that...
...proud of the contribution to the work of the illustrious surgeon DeBakey that was made by members of the staff of the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Dr. Thomas Edman, chairman of the knitting department here at the college, played a significant role in the research and development of the knitted Dacron and Teflon arterial replacements. Dr. Edman is currently working on additional prosthetics that include heart valves and abdominal patches utilizing man-made fibers and knitting technology...
...cover story on artificial hearts and Dr. DeBakey was both interesting and informative. In it you make brief reference to the possibility of using a nuclear source to power these devices. The possibility is not so remote as your brief reference would make it seem: the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health will be giving serious consideration to the feasibility of using nuclear power for the complete artificial heart it hopes to have developed...