In Operating Room D of Manhattan's New York Hospital, Surgeon-in-Chief Frank Glenn held a razor-sharp scalpel over the patient's chest and asked, "How is she?" Replied Chief Anesthesiologist Joseph Francis Artusio Jr.: "She's fine." Then Artusio addressed the patient: "Edna, can you hear me talking to you now?" She opened her eyes. "Edna, look over this way." She turned her head toward the sound of Dr. Artusio's voice.
Without more ado, Surgeon Glenn cut into the chest of Edna, 37, a housewife who had had rheumatic fever at 18 and was now suffering from scarring and narrowing of the...
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