Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Foreword

xi

 

Preface

xiii

 

Introduction

1

Chapter 1

My Roots

5

Chapter 2

Boyhood Friends and Activities

13

Chapter 3

“This, My Friend, is the UT”

27

Chapter 4

Becoming a Doctor

39

Chapter 5

The Dawn of Heart Surgery

51

Chapter 6

Army Doctor

59

Chapter 7

Residency at Hopkins

69

Chapter 8

A Year at the Brompton

79

Chapter 9

Pioneering Cardiovascular Surgery

87

Chapter 10

Opening up the Heart

99

Chapter 11

An Institute for the Heart

115

Chapter 12

Transplanting Hearts

123

Chapter 13

The Total Artificial Heart

137

Chapter 14

The “Cooley Hilton” and Beyond

151

Chapter 15

On Being a Surgeon

165

Chapter 16

Private Life

177

Chapter 17

Reconciliation with Mike

193

 

Summing Up

201

Appendix A

Glossary

209

Appendix B

Personal Contributions to Cardiovascular Surgery

225

Appendix C

Surgical Inventions and Products

228

Appendix D

Selected Publications

231

Appendix E

Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society

244

Appendix F

Curriculum Vitae

246

 

Index

257