1. If This Were My Last Speech, What Would I Say?
Michael J. Mack, MD 
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Volume 94, Issue 4, Pages (October 2012)
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2. Fig 1 The workplace of a cardiothoracic surgeon.
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3. Fig 2
Surgeon at work.
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4. Fig 3 The human interaction.
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5. Fig 4 The “sacredness of human life” in our hands.
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6. Fig 5
Orthopedic surgeon and heart transplant recipient Mitchell Brooks, MD.
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7. Fig 6
Michael E. DeBakey, MD, at his wife's sewing machine making the first vascular grafts.
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8. Fig 7
Ed Bender, MD.
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9. Fig 8 Billy Cohn, MD, showing magic to Bono.
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10. Fig 9 Continuous-flow biventricular assist device.
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11. Fig 10
Functional flow reserve (FFR) calculated from a noninvasive computed tomography angiogram by Heartflow (Heartflow Inc, Redwood City, CA).
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12. Fig 11
The Presidents of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology.
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13. Fig 12
Professors Friedrich Mohr and Patrick Serruys, the Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) Heart Team.
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14. Fig 13 Surgeon and cardiologist in the valve clinic with a patient.
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15. Fig 14
David Holmes, MD, President of American College of Cardiology, Jeffrey Shuren, MD, Director of Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Michael Mack, MD, President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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16. Fig 15
Learning transseptal puncture from David Holmes, MD, on a simulator.
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17. Fig 16 Thoracic surgeons skiing in Switzerland.
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18. Fig 17 Thoracic surgeons with their thoughts while skiing.
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19. Fig 18 I am so proud to be one of you.
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20. Michael J. Mack, MD
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