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By G. Wayne Miller. 310 pp. New York, Times Books, 2000. $25. ISBN 0-8129-3003-7.

If there had been a Nobel prize for cardiac surgery, it would have been awarded to half a dozen surgeons, starting with Gross and Gibbon and extending to Starr or Favaloro. In the middle of this list would have been C. Walton Lillehei. This book by G. Wayne Miller is a thorough and entertaining biography of Walt Lillehei presented from his own perspective as well as that of his patients and his contemporaries. The reader gets a real sense of the adventure, the urgency, the excitement, and the disappointments of laboratory and clinical research during the exciting first two . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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