Pioneering heart doctor Michael DeBakey dead at 99

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Sat, 07/12/2008 - 10:08

HOUSTON (AP) -- Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died.

He was 99....

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