Dr. Michael DeBakey, Medical Trailblazer And Longtime Friend Of National Library Of Medicine, Dies At 99

Dr. Michael DeBakey, who died Friday, July 11th of natural causes, was one of the 20th century’s great pioneers of cardiovascular surgery. He was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston. What many may not know about this celebrated figure (whom medical historian Dr.

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on July 31st, 2008