How to handle heart disease – with Samer Nashef
Ri Science Podcast
Heart Surgery
The death rates for heart surgery started relatively recently. It didn't exist until about the mid 1960s and it wasn't possible until the mid 1950s. There was a taboo on touching the heart, which is why you couldn't fix it without killing the patient. But surgeons always were tempted by the heart because it's a pump. And everything in the heart that used to be unsuccessfully treated with tablets is now very successfully treated with plumbing.
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