You're Not As Good As This Man

We all talk about making the world a better place to live in, this guy not only did it, but did it in a way that literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the planet was effected:

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99.

DeBakey died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston from "natural causes," according to a statement issued early Saturday by Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital.

DeBakey counted world leaders among his patients and helped turn Baylor from a provincial school into one of the nation's great medical institutions.

While still in medical school in 1932, he invented the roller pump, which became the major component of the heart-lung machine, beginning the era of open-heart surgery. The machine takes over the function of the heart and lungs during surgery.

It was only a start of a lifetime of innovation. The surgical procedures that DeBakey developed once were the wonders of the medical world. Today, they are commonplace procedures in most hospitals.

He also was a pioneer in the effort to develop artificial hearts and heart pumps to assist patients waiting for transplants, and helped create more than 70 surgical instruments.

In early 2006, DeBakey underwent surgery for a damaged aorta — a procedure he had developed.

So long Doctor DeBakey, and thanks for making our lives better.  His accomplishments makes us look like lazy pricks.  Quick!  Get busy and invent some good stuff! :)

 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com