Dr. Nolen's "douvle Cabbage"
At 47 he was only slightly overweight and considered himself reasonably fit. He ate and drank moderately, exercised often and did not smoke. But on a warm day last May, after only five minutes of racquetball, he suddenly became extremely short of breath. A burning sensation swept through his chest. Too exhausted to continue, he crouched on the ground trying to recover. Eight weeks later he was wheeled into an operating room for a coronary bypass.
Though thousands of middle-aged victims of heart disease have undergone such operations in the past decade, this was no ordinary patient. He was...
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