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Denton Cooley
Pioneer of Heart Transplants
I think that one of the things that's helped me so much in my life -- I've done some writing, you know -- but grammar has always come easy for me since I got that early grounding from a little, attractive teacher in the seventh and eighth grade named Miss Wineheimer. She taught us how to diagram sentences, and taught us the proper way to write. We never were forced to be real strong in composition, but in construction, it was always taught us that we should understand grammar. It disturbs me greatly nowadays when I hear people who are considered to be intelligent, or even intellectual, who can slaughter English grammar. You know, simple little things like using the pronoun "I" when you should be saying "me." And people always think it sounds better to use the first person singular, "I" instead of "me" as the object of a preposition, and so on. All of those slights indicate to me an inadequate educational background.
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Denton Cooley
Pioneer of Heart Transplants
I did, like most young surgeons, practice tying surgical knots. You know, you take some string to your room at night, and you practice tying knots with one hand, or your left hand, and doing that sort of thing. And just thinking about surgery. And, you know, practicing. Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate. Because it's sort of that gracefulness and poise at the operating table that inspires others to think that you are an accomplished surgeon. I watched a number of surgeons in this country and abroad, and tried to see what it was about their technique that made them successful, and made them masters of the art.
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Olivia de Havilland
Legendary Leading Lady
Olivia de Havilland: I think it was the first serious study of mental illness of a character -- serious study. And I, of course, saw all the experiences that Virginia Cunningham endured. I saw [electric] shock. It was very moving, because when the body under shock, it rises like this, and there is terrible danger, that it will slide off the table when it comes back, and bones can be broken. The particular hospital, it was a California hospital that I visited. Something so touching happened. They had a team of patients who were undergoing shock treatment help the patient who had been assigned that therapy for a certain day, and one would hold this shoulder, another would hold the other. All of them having been through shock, and still, still programmed for that, the hips, the knees, and the ankles, and I saw the body rise. They held on, and of course, nothing happened. No injury ensued to the patient. I saw her afterwards and then several days later, and the whole experience was altogether extraordinary.
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