It wasn\'t supposed to be this hard.
Rich in supporting players, Ticker introduces us to Bud\'s brilliant colleagues in his quixotic Quest to develop an Artificial heart: Billy Cohn, the h.
Inventor Robert Jarvik, whose Artificial Heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwide symbol of both the brilliant promise of technology and the devastating evils of experimentation run amuck.
Christian Barnaard, who changed the world overnight by performing the first Heart transplant.
Heart surgeons Michael De Bakey and Denton Cooley, whose feud dominated the dramatic beginnings of Heart surgery.
Ticker provides a riveting history of the pioneers who gave their all to the courageous process of cutting into the only organ humans cannot live without.
Until post WWII, Heart surgery did not exist.
A seedy bar on the wrong side of Houston.
A hardware store in Brisbane, Australia.
A field beside the Nile irrigated by an Archimedes screw.
Still, Bud and his associates persist, finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places.
The roadblocks to success --medical setbacks, technological shortcomings, government regulations - are immense.
His journey takes him from a small town in west Texas to one of the country\'s most prestigious medical institutions, The Texas Heart Institute, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories where calves are fitted with new Heart designs. "Bud" Frazier, who has given his life to saving the un-savable.
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Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting fifty years of false starts, abysmal failures and miraculous triumphs, as experienced by one the world\'s foremost Heart surgeons, O.
If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn\'t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an Artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature\'s greatest creations.
It wasn\'t supposed to be this hard
