Until a decade ago, there was one way to perform a heart bypass surgery: by stopping your heart. The surgery, called Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, is a heart attack prevention method that basically calls for a doctor to install a new tube for blood to flow to the heart because the old tube is clogged from too many cheeseburgers. Because the heart needed to be stopped to install the new tube, the surgery often led to complications. There was good news. At the turn of the millennium, doctors figured out a new way to do the surgery without stopping the heart. This would help a whole lot of people live complication-free lives and not die from heart attacks — if doctors could learn to do it....
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