I think so. I really do. With your own effort, you can improve yourself, but people find they can’t improve beyond a certain point. I like to play golf, but I know that no matter how much I practice, I will never get above a certain level. I think that’s also true of surgery. Some people are born with the gifts and the mind for surgery, and they may go on to great heights. Others may try and try, only to reach a certain plateau.
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Denton Cooley
Cardiothoracic surgeon; founder of the Texas Heart Institute
United States · 1920–2016
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American heart surgeon who performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart in a human in 1969 and founded the Texas Heart Institute in Houston in 1962. He and his teams performed more than 100,000 open-heart operations.
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