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...entrepreneurs, inventors and designers who are intrinsically connected to this emotional dimension. As long as the M.B.A.s hold the toy-industry reins and the stock market is God, Toys "R" Us will remain a boring place to shop, and our children will continue to be the big losers. TIM EFFLER S.O.E.D.A., Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio...
Attacking the VA study, Corday, a U.C.L.A. cardiologist, charged that "the VA's patients were the most unsuitable group to study because their mortality under medical therapy alone was already less than 1 %." In agreement was Dr. Donald B. Effler, head of cardiovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic when his chief associate, Dr. René Favaloro, developed the bypass. Said Effler: "I think the VA report has already been shot down, and if not, then it will be before sunset." Favaloro, recalled from his home base in Argentina to deliver one of the session's two principal lectures...
...patients. The surgeons conceded that most patients with chronic but stable angina (probably indicating only one blocked coronary artery) do not need a costly bypass. Most also agreed that for victims of the severest disease, characterized by a blockage in the left main coronary artery (a condition that Effler aptly calls "the widow-maker"), surgery is all but mandatory. The same is true for patients with progressive or uncontrollable angina who have two or three diseased coronary arteries. Even patients with these severe conditions who have already suffered heart attacks can, 80% to 90% of the time, be freed...
DONALD B. EFFLER...
...Effler, gave the go-ahead, and the coronary bypass soon gained fame and popularity-and an ever higher degree of safety and dependability...