Word: open-heart
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...cavalierly - self-referential cinema, as it was called, could easily turn self-reverential - but it spawned some fascinating films, including Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland, Woody Allen's Stardust Memories and above all Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, a collision of song and dance, skyrocketing neurosis and open-heart surgery, energy and entropy. Nine hit Broadway three years later, with Raul Julia declaiming Maury Yeston's songs in Tommy Tune's black-and-white, beyond-chic production...
...soldiers' chests without killing one. Buoyed by such successes, in the postwar years surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that lasted longer than four minutes, because the interruption in circulation caused brain damage. That changed in 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon Jr. of Philadelphia used a heart-lung respirator to keep an 18-year-old patient alive for 27 minutes while he repaired a hole in her heart, paving the way for open-heart surgeries to enter widespread use. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's smarter approach to health care...
...school hours and more days off than "normal" children did, opened her own day-care center for the developmentally disabled. By this time, Noah was 14 and as tall as my mother. My father, already in his 50s, was soon diagnosed with a heart problem; he has since had open-heart surgery. My mother, who had been Noah's most assiduous and faithful teacher, spending hours a day at a table in his room, constantly trying to get him to repeat sounds or tie a string, was exhausted. Both of them felt they couldn't take care...
...survived a brain tumor, open-heart surgery and chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's disease, the latest round of which ended in July...
Considered by many the father of modern cardiac surgery, Dr. Michael DeBakey pioneered techniques and devices that revolutionized his field, and still persist today. In 1932, while in medical school, DeBakey invented a pump that became a critical part of machines that later enabled open-heart surgery. He was one of the first to recognize the link between smoking and lung cancer, and he performed the first successful coronary bypass. An adamant perfectionist, DeBakey also provided medical advice to some of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, including President John F. Kennedy and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin...