"G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first ...

Terence Kealey reviews Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart by Donald McRae. In this thrilling history of heart transplantation, Donald McRae shows how exciting medical ...

WHEN AN old man prepares for open-heart surgery, he maintains a confident demeanor and so does his good wife. He has an excellent surgeon and the procedure has been around since he was a teenager, ...

If you were about to undergo open heart surgery and the surgeon brandishing the scalpel was suffering from a powerful hangover after binge drinking the night before, you'd leap off the operating table ...

If Walton Lillehei was a gunslinger in the operating theater, he led a gunslinger's life outside it as well. When Lillehei was lucky, his gold jewelry, Jaguar XKE and late nights in jazz dives did ...

Asked to name the greatest scientific achievements of the 1960s, it’s a fair bet most people will list two that remain as awe-inspiring now as they were then: landing men on the moon and giving ...