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The Important Reason We Label Generations & The Strange Stories of Medical Breakthroughs

Something You Should Know

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The Greatest Medical Advances of the 20th Century

In 1929, an intern in Germany got the idea of putting a catheter into his heart. His boss called it "crazy" and said he would cause arrhythmia and death. He secretly hatched a plot to get some supplies for the procedure by tricking a nurse. The next x-ray showed that Werner Forsmann was not dead after all.

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