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Book Chapter
The Mechanical Heart
2011
Overview
John Gibbon Jr., a surgical resident at the MGH in 1931, was typical of those training in prestigious programs at that time. A fourth-generation physician from Philadelphia, he had been educated at Princeton University and Jefferson Medical College. Patrician, tall, spare, and handsome, he was quietly dedicated to his career. One evening the nurses called him urgently to the bedside of a postoperative patient who had suddenly lost consciousness. Her skin, lips, and fingernails were blue, her breathing was labored, her pulse was weakening. She was dying before his eyes from a pulmonary embolus. Despite hours of support with intravenous
