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Cardiothoracic surgeon; founder of the Texas Heart Institute
United States · 1920–2016
Science and medicine
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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You have to be intelligent, and be able to cope with stress. It is a stressful life, both mentally and physically. Those are the qualities to succeed as a surgeon.
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