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His age 5. i was doing some exercise about three weeks ago, jogging routine that i do and made it about .3 mile and then had the classic symptoms, chest pain, and then pain down the left arm and shortness of breath. what room is this? as in the case of bill clinton, bare was told he had no options by the time he saw the doctor. within days woe need bypass surgery. in this instance this is sort of what i consider a medical failure. in other words, he got these narrowings and plaque despite our efforts to prevent it from progressing. and my goal would be, even though i m a surgeon and treat these things, is to not have them get to this point. from a public health standpoint we have to do this, because this bypass operation is going to be very expensive. he s not kidding. average cost in the u.s. $112,000. and there are about 450,000 procedures performed every year. ....
Graduating from stanford, i started running again. i wanted to get in good shape and i thought, this is crazy. i couldn t run more than three-quarters after mile without stopping and walking 100 yards and getting my breath back. three years later, the bypass operation with dr. craig smith. president clinton s heart troubles were not over. when the devastating earthquake struck haiti in 2010, president clinton flew to port-au-prince to support the relief efforts. i spent time with him and saw that he looked tired, not himself. got all pale and weak and then i got all these letters from the doctor crowd saying, yeah, it s normal because fools like you won t do what you re supposed to do because you don t eat like you should, don t exercise like you should. the doctor said it was a mechanical failure of the bypass and he needed stents to open the blocked artery. ....
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i was doing some exercise about three weeks ago, jogging routine that i do and made it about .3 mile and then had the classic symptoms, chest pain, and then pain down the left arm and shortness of breath. what room is this? as in the case of bill clinton, bare was told he had no options by the time he saw the doctor. within days woe need bypass surgery. in this instance this is sort of what i consider a medical failure. in other words, he got these narrowings and plaque despite our efforts to prevent it from progressing. and my goal would be, even though i m a surgeon and treat these things, is to not have them get to this point. from a public health standpoint we have to do this, because this bypass operation is going to be ....
8:00 he had a relatively routine quadruple bypass operation. we left the operating room around noon and he is recovering normally at this point so i think right now everything looks straightforward. there was that period when you re just not sure you can come back. that bothered me. that and the pain. if it happened to him, could it happen to you? what about me? i m a pretty typical guy in his early 40s with a family history of heart disease. so i decided to go on a mission to never have a heart attack. but how? when people talk about trying to end heart attacks in the world or in america at least, one of the ways to do that is to take a look inside the heart, see what s happening before someone ever has a problem. and that s what we re going to do here today. you re actually going to look for what? my heart? yes. ....