Michael E. DeBakey

A surgeon, DeBakey was still in medical school when he developed the roller pump, which allowed blood to be pumped without touching it. The pump became the core of the heart-lung machine, which made heart surgery possible. It didn't stop there: DeBakey co-wrote the first scientific paper linking smoking with lung cancer (1939); performed the first coronary bypass (1964); performed the first carotid endarterectomy (1953); invented the Dacron arterial graft so that aortic aneurisms could be repaired, and performed the first such surgery (1954); performed the first multiple-organ transplant (1968); and invented the mobile army surgical hospital (1945, immortalized by the book, movie and TV show M*A*S*H). He is thought by many to be "the greatest surgeon ever," said the American Medical Association. He ended up operating on at least 60,000 people, and developed techniques and equipment that has saved millions. When he was 97, he suffered an aneurism of his own aorta -- and was saved by surgeons using his surgical technique and the Dacron graft he invented. He died July 11 at 99. From This is True for 13 July 2008 Suggestions for further reading: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scient... by Dean Ornish Amazon Price: $7.99 Customer Review: Very good, very important book. A believable, thoughtful guide to folks who truly want to live long and well.   Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon by Kathy Magliato M.D. Amazon Price: $16.32 Customer Review: This is a wonderful, inspiring book! More than a memoir, t is well-written and difficult to put down. Dr. Magliato really hits it home for working woman and the struggles that we face, balancing work and family lives. In this book she tells the stori...   Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, Ninth Edition by F. Brunicardi, Dana Andersen, Timothy Billiar, David Dunn, John Hunter, Jeffrey Matthews, Raphael E. Pollock Amazon Price: $143.20 Customer Review: I have completed this one volume 1800 pages classic text. I read cover to cover the 5th edition when I was a surgery resident. Now as a Board Certified Urologist with 12 years experience I have found this stable in surgical literature much improved...   A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia Amazon Price: $61.41 Customer Review: Great book, a lot of information, but i'm sorry, unreadable. The presentation is like the old 80's book. No color, no space, that's pitty. That's why I bought the Kaplan's one, the short one (essentials of cardiac anesthesia) which is much more user ...   The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery (Heart Valve Replacement And Heart... by Adam Pick Amazon Price: $29.95 Customer Review: This book should be called "I thought it would be cathartic to write about my really bad experience," rather than "the patient's guide to heart surgery." This is no guide, it is just some guy telling his story. This is the first time th...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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