Posted by Mike on January 02, 2003 at 11:54:38:
In Reply to: Re: Dr. Cox posted by Carl Plaskett on January 01, 2003 at 22:16:18:
It's like when you see something like bypass surgery, now done in even the smallest of hospitals. People tend to blow it off as nothing, and as routine, never stopping to think of the genius of men like Cooley and DeBakey, who developed it when it didn't exist. It's easy to laugh at the Wright brothers first flight and their funny looking airplane, till one realizes that they did something that had never existed before.
Now, Dr. Cox's efforts aren't that primitive, but the man took arrhythmia surgery where it was, and took it mega steps forward, so far, that he was actually pioneering new ground where no one had ever set foot before.
The people now doing arrythmia surgery of any kind, and doing it routinely, have Dr. Cox to thank. He set the bases, from which all advances from now on will be made, and probably by him, as long as he's alive and involved.