Word: effler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obstruction was, and so decide how to treat it. That has now been overcome by improved techniques for X-raying the heart's arteries, developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr. Relying on these, two of the Clinic's surgeons, Dr. Donald B. Effler and Dr. Rene Favaloro, have performed 51 operations of a new and promising type. They cut out the diseased segment of the coronary artery itself. Then they replace it with a graft. But unlike the transplant surgeons, Dr. Effler's team has no worry about rejection because it gets...
Good v. Great. Given the proper training, most surgeons are competent. Many are extremely good, and a few are great. What makes the difference? "To be great." says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Donald B. Effler. "a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights...