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Changing Medical History - New Zealand's First Open Heart Surgery artwork
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Changing Medical History - New Zealand's First Open Heart Surgery

Eyewitness by RNZ

Dec 3, 202000:16:23Society & Culture

Prior to 1958 mortality rates for babies born with heart conditions was extremely high. But a groundbreaking open heart surgery performed 62 years ago at Greenlane Hospital by Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes changed medical hist...

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Changing Medical History - New Zealand's First Open Heart Surgery is an episode from Eyewitness by RNZ. Prior to 1958 mortality rates for babies born with heart conditions was extremely high. But a groundbreaking open heart surgery performe...

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Published Dec 3, 2020, 00:16:23 long, audio available.