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10 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘heart’

TIA Part Two – Waiting and Not Knowing

By Denis Campbell • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
Several hours spent this week tracking paperwork. Despite being marked URGENT, it sat in Casualty Monday, blissfully undisturbed. This is my life, so humour such as the SMS I once sent to the acting news director of one of Wales’ two TV networks (it has just a single vowel before the letters t [...]



Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, Mender of Hearts

By Denis Campbell • Jul 13th, 2008 • Category: Innovators
Millions of heart ailment sufferers may owe their lives to Dr. Michael DeBakey’s dedication to innovation. The man who would not quit finally had his body quit on him two months shy of his 100th birthday, passing away late Friday. Dr. Debakey developed the roller pump in medical school in 1932 to keep pumping and re-circulating a patient’s blood [...]