Heart Attacks as Treatments

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 9, 2002 @01:55AM from the like-a-surgeon dept.

cannon_trodder writes "Just caught a story at the BBC which explains how surgeons are going to be demonstrating a surgical technique that involves deliberately inducing a heart attack in order to remove over-thickened tissue in the heart. The article also explains that the 3 procedures will be transmitted directly to a cardiology conference with the 100 delegates able to ask questions during the op. 'If it ain't fixed, break it.'"

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