Heart surgeon gets Congressional Gold Medal
AP/USA Today, April 24, 2008
President Bush has presented heart surgeon Michael DeBakey with a Congressional Gold Medal. Houston-based DeBakey pioneered such procedures as heart bypass and has invented medical devices to help heart patients. He's also developed the idea of battlefield mobile surgical hospitals known as MASH units.
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