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BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC
March 2011
... surgeon Alton Ochsner, who recognized the eager medical student’s potential and fostered his interest in surgery. ... link between smoking and lung cancer. Still as a medical student, DeBakey developed one of the first mechanical blood ... in Houston, where a CT scan confirmed the diagnosis of a type A aortic dissection. Because his advanced age made ...