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At 10:30 p.m. on December 1, 1982, a retired dentist named Barney Clark was wheeled into an operating room at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Clark, who was 61 years old, had end-stage congestive heart failure. When his condition acutely worsened that night in the middle of a heavy snowstorm, his doctors decided to press ahead with the world's first implantation of a permanent artificial heart. By the time the seven-hour operation was over, it had unleashed a blizzard of a different kind.

By all accounts, when Clark was hospitalized in late November, he was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From New York University Medical Center, New York.

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