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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Nov 2013: Johns Hopkins’ Pioneering Cardiac Surgeon Reflects on Lifetime of Service - Higher Education - B. Denise Hawkins - It’s been three decades since Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. made medical history when he stopped the heart of a California woman just long enough to perform the first human implantation of the automatic defibrillator. Watkins, who is African-American, finds it “ironic,” even today, that “women and African-Americans are 30 to 40 percent less likely to get a defibrillator even when they meet the criteria and have the insurance.”
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