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Tue 08 Aug 2008Stitching together a lifesaver for humanity
MEDICAL MATTERS:A look at the life of Michael DeBakey, the unasssuming inventor of the artificial heart graft, who died last month, Dr Muiris Houston
THE ATMOSPHERE in the operating theatre was tense. There was blood everywhere. All of us present, from the lowly intern (me), to the experienced theatre sister and the professor of surgery, held our collective breaths.
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