(“Maybe it’s immodest of me,” Cooley would later say, “but I thought that since I was the most experienced heart surgeon in the world, I was the one best qualified to perform transplants ...

It might have remained so, were it not for World War II. Military doctors ... suffer from congestive heart failure. When drug treatments fail, transplants are the best hope.

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital ... months until he underwent surgery to receive a donated human heart. The man is recovering well ...

I cannot in my patriotic conscience ignore what is happening,” he told a prospective patient in California via email, ...

“I wanted to do what’s best for Canada ... “Dr. Ruel is one of the world’s most highly regarded cardiac surgeons, and his leadership will undoubtedly elevate our division to new ...

Cardiac surgeon and professor ... a Greek woman and an excellent student in Greece of the 2nd World War and the foundations she laid for him. Finally, in a career of 37 years, experiencing ...