The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science. I didn’t think he was an especially brilliant man, I just admired him for his curiosity, and for his perseverance.
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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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