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“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”

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Denton Cooley

Denton Cooley was an outstanding cardiac surgeon known as a pioneer in the field of cardiac surgery. Born on August 22, 1920, in Texas, USA, he passed away on November 18, 2016. Dr. Cooley made significant breakthroughs in cardiac surgery, particularly in heart transplantation and minimally invasive surgery. His contributions not only transformed the treatment of heart disease patients but also had a profound impact on the development of cardiology worldwide. more

“[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.”

Humans Heart Body Activity Function Witness Compare Fascinating Organs Human Heart Intestines

Author:Denton Cooley

“Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.”

Want Trying Practice Pieces Cutting Fingers Meat Surgery Scalpels

Author:Denton Cooley

“An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.”

Way Suffering Leader Institutions

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”