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While the medicos bombard patients with all sorts of information BEFORE they go into the hospital and of course while they are IN the hospital, it was after I was sent home with wounds all over my body that I realized how very little I knew about the turmoil and tribulations of my recovery to come. Here, in this final chapter in the tale of an ordinary woman's life turned upside down from the sudden diagnosis of a very distressed heart (with links to the first three parts of the story) I compose my own personal list about recovering from...

/begin my translation Japanese Weekly "Kim Jong-il had heart surgery" S. Korean government official, "We have no particular indication of Kim's health trouble" Yonhap News 2007.06.08 16:29 Japanese weekly news magazine 'Shukan Gendai' reported that Kim Jong-il suffered myocardial infarction (heart attack) last May and was hospitalized at Kim Man-you hospital in Pyongyang, and had an operation. In its June 13th issue, the latest edition, the magazine reported, "Kim suffered a heart attack in early May and had a coronary bypass surgery in secret. Those involved were put on strict gag order, but it is the medical team dispatched from...

Solucient: African-Americans, Women Less Likely to Receive Effective Technique for Coronary Bypass Surgery in U.S. Hospitals 10/27/03 10:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Tarsis Lopez of Solucient, 847-440-9619 EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new study by Solucient shows that U.S. hospitals are less likely to use a key heart bypass technique, known as IMA, on African-American and female patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery than Caucasians and men, respectively, despite a steady increase in use of this method over the past five years. Still, the nation's top heart hospitals have adopted this bypass...