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Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

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The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burni…

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The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United …

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I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. Lacked self-co…

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[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. S…

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A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

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I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

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I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and…

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Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that …

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I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

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