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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Miller, Craig A. (1965-....)
Titre(s) : A time for all things [Texte imprimé] : the life of Michael E. DeBakey / Craig A. Miller,...
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-610 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
"Lake Charles: 1908-1926 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless
tenor of their way. September 23, 1996 KLM Flight 287 rolled to a seamless stop on
the tarmac, and settled on its wheels under the translucent Moscow sky. A contingent
of American heart surgeons and support staff blinked and stretched. Their leader was
famous for dozing off as soon as the wheels were up on any flight of length, and more
than one of his retinue had mimicked that feat on this last leg of their journey from
Houston via Amsterdam. This was not the first sojourn to Russia for their Chief -
that had been back in 1958, when the country had another name and quite another polity.
Many other visits had followed, accompanied by accolades and fetes, mostly with a
Cold War political undertone he neither shared nor acknowledged. By nature he was
fond of reflecting on change and history, and he did not miss the significance of
returning to this place, the both of them now so different, in a position to alter
the life path of a man who, himself, was responsible for much of this country's metamorphosis.
The President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was suffering from congestive heart failure
and severe coronary artery disease. The situation was grave; he was not expected to
live without open-heart surgery - coronary bypass - but it was not clear that he could
survive the procedure itself. The leading Russian heart surgeons and cardiologists
had asked this Houston team to come to Moscow to assess the risks and provide recommendations
as to how to proceed. In the geopolitically-charged climate of the immediate post-Cold
War period, bringing in a coterie of Americans as consultants on the medical care
of the most powerful man in Russia provoked all manner of responses on both sides
of the Atlantic. The world's major news organizations focused on the story, covering
every aspect. This fuss was of little consequence to the team from Texas, however.
They were there to do a job, and their very presence in the Russian capital was as
much of a validation as any that they were the most qualified group in the world for
the task"
Sujet(s) : DeBakey, Michael E. (1908-2008)
Chirurgiens -- États-Unis
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
617.092 (23e éd.) = Chirurgie - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190073947. - ISBN 0190073942. - ISBN 9780190073961 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190073954
(erroné). - ISBN 9780190073978 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46528397j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46528397
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Lake Charles ; Tulane University 1926-35 ; Strasbourg, Heidelberg and New Orleans
1935-1942 ; Washington, D.C. and New Orleans 1942-48 ; Houston 1948-1951 ; Houston
1951-1956 ; Houston 1956-1960 ; Houston 1960-1969 ; Houston 1969 The Artificial
Heart ; Houston 1970-1989 ; Houston 1990-2008.
