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[avoidingmyboss]

"Dr. DeBakey is chancellor emeritus of the Baylor College of Medicine and director of The DeBakey Heart Center of Baylor and Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. While still in medical school, Dr. DeBakey devised a pump that became one of the essential components of the heart-lung machine, which made open-heart surgery possible. He has developed more than 50 surgical instruments. Best known for his innovations in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, Dr. DeBakey was the first to perform successful excision and graft replacement of aortic aneurysms and arterial obstructive lesions, particularly on the carotid artery and thoracic aorta" H O U S T O N - - "

350driver, I have always been intrigued by your quote. May I ask how you know who Dr. Debakey is? And do you know what Debakies are? If you can answer the second question that will tell me about your background. Thanks

 

[FL717]

Heyyyyy!!!! You don't call, you don't write.... I'm not feelin' the love.

Now here I catch you asking questions with words I can't even pronounce. What up wit dat?

Your wife know where you're at and what you're doing??? I'll call her and rat you out!

And who's the beached whale??

Log off and call me for cryin' out loud!!

 

[avoidingmyboss]

what can I say I'm a hack artist

 

[TSA ERJ]

All good Texans (at least Houstonians) know who Dr. DeBakey is

 

[350DRIVER]

avoidingmyboss,

I do not know him that well but was fortunate enough to have met him on several occasions when I was residing in the Houston area. A good friend of mine had trained under him a long time ago and this is partially how this came about. Dr. Elias Saadi was a prized student of his who soaked up a lot of knowledge from this man and it is always impressive to see first hand how this man taught. This area of medicine has always fascinated me and I was actually pre-med in college and was on the "right track" until I got lazy. If only I could go back and re-write history, **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** I would have pursued this.

The man is pretty impressive not only as a human being but also the many advances and "firsts" that he introduced many years ago. He did quite a bit for this area of medicine.. I can only imagine this industry twenty years from now.

All good Texans (at least Houstonians) know who Dr. DeBakey is

"Don't mess with Texas"


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and .... that BBQ!!

 

[Dubya]

quote:

"Don't mess with Texas"

350....this is the smartest thing I have seen you post. (jab)

I bet you thought we couldn't possibly agree on something.....and once again you are wrong! hehe

W

 

[350DRIVER]

I bet you thought we couldn't possibly agree on something.....and once again you are wrong! hehe

Dubya, I don't know what to say.... I was wrong here - lol


On a more serious note, politics aside I would lend a helping hand to any fellow aviator if I could. I am sure most who know me would agree. (or I would hope)



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[DC4boy]

I used to dislike 350. After a while, you'll get to see, he's a good dude. (politics aside)

Kinda grows on you....................

 

[avoidingmyboss]

350driver thanks for the info I was wondering about how you came to know him. Most aviators would not know who he is excluding Texans. Debakies are forceps used in heart surgery cases and in most general cases also. I am sure he came up with these types of forceps himself and named them after himself. Not sure if you have heard this tad bit of info but very unsure if it was Debakey or not but here’s how it goes;

Back in the old days of heart surgery the doctors would try to repair the artery on the heart by simply placing a graft on the blocked area only. At the time the Doc’s didn’t have much success in heart bypass. A resident one-day closing the chest after open-heart surgery tore one of the grafts off. He knew he would have his a$$ handed to him so he sutured the graft on to the aorta. The patient did very well better than most. So the attending wanted to see what was going on, when they shot the dye in the truth came out. They saw exactly what the resident did. This changed everything about how open-heart surgery is preformed and of course all by accident. I guess this is why it’s called a practice. I am not sure if this was Debakey or Colley’s (sp) case but they took all the credit for the new procedure.

 

[Swass]

I used to dislike 350. After a while, you'll get to see, he's a good dude. (politics aside)

Kinda grows on you....................

My sentiments exactly. 350, look at some DO programs, even if the grades suffered when you got lazy in school you could still have a shot. They like to see diversity in their programs, age is not a checkmark against you as it is in some allopathic schools. Just my .02.

( I'm not gonna give up until I hear you are being accepted into some med school! )

 

[350DRIVER]

avoidingmyboss,

I would agree with you, I have heard the above mentioned case but cannot remember when it took place (year)although I have heard it was many years ago and a few were assisting. The bypass procedure was a difficult one and failure rate(s) were high due to the many obstacles that had to be overcome in the early days during these types of operations. One of my first gigs was flying the transplant teams (mainly the heart surgeons/some liver) for the Cleveland Clinic and to hear the stories about some of these older surgeons and what little they had to work with in the early days versus what is currently available present day is a tad mind boggling.

If you are ever in the Cleveland area I would suggest making a trip to the Cleveland Clinic and checking out the many "walls of fame" and "displays" in the cardiology department there. If this area of medicine interests you then you surely will enjoy what the Clinic has on display, they are certainly not shy to display to the general public what they have been able to accomplish over the many years in this area. The Clinic Heart Center performs the largest volume of open heart surgery of any center in the country.

My sentiments exactly. 350, look at some DO programs, even if the grades suffered when you got lazy in school you could still have a shot. They like to see diversity in their programs, age is not a checkmark against you as it is in some allopathic schools. Just my .02.

Swass,

If I did not have this much time/effort devoted to this profession (aviation) then I surely would have looked into going this route. If only I would have known years ago what I know now about how vulnerable this profession really is. I still have the age on my side (mid-20's) but the competition is more fierce today and younger and it would take much more than I could give to get into the "better" known and more respected medical schools that I once had a shot at getting into. The grades never suffered, just the attitude and mindset of having to ponder the 12+ years of schooling to be that type of a surgeon. In more ways than one I can see where bobbysamd and I were derailed, just in different professions. Maybe in another life..

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[350DRIVER]

TSA, you get back to Hobby much?

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