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Article: VOA NEWS: NATION HONORS RENOWNED CARDIOVASCULAR SURGEON

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July 9, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Ted Landphair

The latest recipient of the highest civilian medal presented by the U.S. Congress is Dr. Michael DeBakey. The pre-eminent heart surgeon, who will mark his 100th birthday in September, has operated on 60,000 patients at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and hundreds more princes, politicians, and paupers elsewhere. VOA's Ted Landphair has more.Now, this man whose Lebanese immigrant parents ran a drug store in the little Louisiana city of Lake Charles, is the 147th Congressional Gold Medal winner. He joins the likes of civil-rights martyr Martin Luther King, Junior; Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine; and ...

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