and the beat goes on
Relevant Readings
Is Medical Rivalry Threatening Yeltsin's Chances for Recovery? Lawrence Altman, The New York Times, 9/30/96, p. C3.

Personality as Independent Predictor of Long-term Mortality in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease, Johan Denollet et al, Lancet, 2/17/96, p. 417-21.

Waiting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Abusive, Appropriate, or Acceptable? Kingma, J. H, Lancet (North American edition) 12/16/95, pp. 1570-1.

Waiting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Population-based Study of 8517 Consecutive Patients in Ontario, Canada, David Naylor et al, Lancet (North American edition) 12/16/95, pp. 1605-9.

Yeltsin's Surgeon in Action Performing a Coronary Bypass, Lawrence Altman, The New York Times, 10/7/96, p. C3.

Caught in the Web
The Why Files covered obesity and fast fixes for fatness.

The Heart Surgery Forum is so cool, we wish we'd invented it ourselves.

The American Heart Association.

You don't have to hail from Dixie to benefit from the Cardiovascular Institute of the South. Search their site for cardiac clues.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum offers a heart tour.

Here's a treasure-trove of cardiovascular information.

Heart sounds courtesy of Synapse Publishing Inc.: normal heart | pulmonary stenosis | ventricular septal defect.

Growing spare body parts -- naturally.


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