The Challenging Dream of Heart Surgery: From the Pampas to Cleveland

By Rene G. Favaloro

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316260266
• ISBN13: 9780316260268
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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Life, for Medicine and People. A real Man

Dr. René G. Favaloro was one of the men who contributted to one of the medical treatment which saves many, many lives. He started and promoted the Coronary Artery By Pass surgery.In this book, written by him while he was still alive, tell as the way he reached to the performance of the first Coronary Artery By Pass Graft. He started as a rural practitioner into a little rural area of Argentine Republic, then moved to the United States where he did this, what made of him a Hero of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He refused a life full of honors and millonaire offers to come back to his Country, Argentina to fight for the health of his people.He did it and died for it.It is a book that deserves to be read.