| Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery Subjects: History 20th Century.; History 19th Century.; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Heart surgeons; Heart surgeons; Heart; Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were active between 1940 and 1985.
William S. Stoney, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. |