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...While lying down, the patient is injected with a contrast agent that helps highlight the heart's blood vessels...
...table slides the patient into the scanner as the X-ray tube circles the body...
What makes this story all the more remarkable is that the image that changed Fackelmann's future was generated without any kind of surgery. For years, the gold standard for discovering the location of blockages in a patient's coronary arteries has been a procedure called a cardiac catheterization, in which a specialist inserts a probe through an incision into a blood vessel in the groin, then snakes it up toward the heart, where an opaque dye is released...
That hint of feverish emotion behind a cool exterior made Fiennes a star as the silky Nazi sadist in Schindler's List and the enigmatic lover in The English Patient. But those hits, both of which won Oscars for Best Picture, are, respectively, 12 and nine years old. Since then, he has used his wattage to choose parts that suit or stretch his range. He is less worried about his payday or the films' potential grosses, although he can wince over those that failed. Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star...
Well, because acting is the pouring of a fictional spirit into an actual body. A star actor like Fiennes gradually becomes the sum of his roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses...