On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:26:02 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:49:45 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> But I think it may be culture-speecific, and even "oh but I'm talking
>>> only of the western world" is too broad. Jim, have *you* heard of
>>> Favaloro? :)
>> 
>> Not really, but then again, I don't keep up on current events when it
>> comes to surgeons (and I personally don't watch a lot of news myself).
> 
> "In 1967, René Favaloro became the first surgeon to perform a coronary
> bypass surgery on a patient suffering from Coronary artery disease. This
> procedure later developed into the most important technology in coronary
> surgery."
> 
> How is that a "current" event?

Relatively current, then.  I did note that he'd passed away in the 80's.  
My point, though, was that I don't keep up with medical science, so even 
though my dad had bypass surgery years ago, I never thought about where 
it came from.

Jim

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