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CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2011 Dorinda Jones was born with a heart condition that left her too exhausted to walk from the bus to her classroom. Then she met the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Donald Effler. In 1956, heart surgeons Effler and Dr. Laurence Groves performed a successful “stopped-heart” surgery, a procedure that involves stopping the heart so that it can be repaired surgically. The procedure, .