{"id":2730,"date":"2006-12-25T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2006-12-25T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T22:20:42","slug":"the_surgeon_und","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"The Surgeon Undergoes Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/25\/health\/25surgeon.html?ex=1324702800&amp;en=4d71073f5956dce1&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Lawrence Altman:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Dr. DeBakey, one of the most influential heart surgeons in history, assumed his heart would stop in a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It never occurred to me to call 911 or my physician,&rdquo; Dr. DeBakey said, adding: &ldquo;As foolish as it may appear, you are, in a sense, a prisoner of the pain, which was intolerable. You&rsquo;re thinking, What could I do to relieve myself of it. If it becomes intense enough, you&rsquo;re perfectly willing to accept cardiac arrest as a possible way of getting rid of the pain.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But when his heart kept beating, Dr. DeBakey suspected that he was not having a heart attack. As he sat alone, he decided that a ballooning had probably weakened the aorta, the main artery leading from the heart, and that the inner lining of the artery had torn, known as a dissecting aortic aneurysm.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Altman: Dr. DeBakey, one of the most influential heart surgeons in history, assumed his heart would stop in a few seconds. &ldquo;It never occurred to me to call 911 or my physician,&rdquo; Dr. DeBakey said, adding: &ldquo;As foolish as it may appear, you are, in a sense, a prisoner of the pain, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,18,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}