"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The years 1953-54 marked a turning point in cardiovascular surgery. Working at home on his wife's sewing machine, Dr. DeBakey constructed the first Dacron artificial artery to replace the damaged segments of artery.