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Robert Lindner
Hi Don,
I want to wish you well.
So I hope that bypass keeps
Going strong. That is the usual
Case with what is called
"Cabbage Surgery." I was
Trained in surgery and that
procedure was one of the traing
Tools at Hennepin County when
I was at Uof Min. The story is in
A poem. Of course.
Be well/Stay well
Robert Lindner
Cabbage Surgery and The GSV
Coronary artery bypass graft
Surgery (CABG) is a craft
Called “Cabbage Surgery,”
And assisted by me,
When I took surgery
At Hennepin County Hospital, staffed
By a heart surgeon,
Who’d do the bypass, but it would begin
With me and a thigh, where
I’d take some veins from there
To be grafted with care
From aorta to the artery in
The heart that needed to
Be bypassed to get the healthy blood through
A blocked coronary
Artery. Surgery
Was with the GSV
Great saphenous vein which was used to do
The bypass and I was
Being trained then to remove it because
That was easily done.
By trainees. I was one
Back then and with caution
Removed the vein which would bypass the flaws
In the heart’s artery.
And that was one type of coronary
Artery surgery,
Using the GSV.
It’s the most commonly
Used procedure and once was done by me.
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