Sep 7, 1908 – Jul 11, 2008
DR. MICHAEL E. DeBAKEY, physician and cardiovascular surgeon for the world, died Friday evening, the 11th of July 2008, from natural causes in Houston. He was 99. Dr. DeBakey is survived by his wife, Katrin; daughter, Olga-Katarina; two sons, Michael and Denis; two sisters, Lois and Selma...
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An Invention - (1963) - Dr. Michael E. DeBakey of Houston, Texas, displays a model of a plastic heart which he describes at an American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles, Ca., on Oct. 27, 1963. (AP photo)
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His Daughter Olga - (1977)
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His Wedding to Katrin - (1975)
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In Surgery - (1978) - amed American heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey performs open-heart surgery in Saudi Arabia in this May 25, 1978 file photo. (AP photo)
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In His Office - (1985) - American heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey during interview in his office conference room at Methodist Hospital in this May 28, 1985 file photo taken in Houston, Texas. (AP photo)
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In 1971 after five heart attacks my 42-year-old father was sent home from KU Med Center in Kansas City with. I´m sorry there´s nothing we can do draw your Social Security until you die. in the line at the grocery store. My mother heard someone talking about Dr. DeBakey in Houston she called him the next day. He had her pick up all the test results and fly to Houston. He did open-heart surgery on my father and my dad lived for nine more years, he called personally my father every year to see...
Linda Schiefelbein Burghart
July 20, 2023
Michael DeBakey was a wonderful man that will never be forgotten
anonymous ???
April 19, 2021 | ???, NC
Rest Michael, until you hear at dawn,
the low, clear reveille of God.
Thank you for your service to this nation.
Harry Simpson
July 11, 2018 | Buckeye, AZ
The beautiful comments of Becky Taylor on the kindness and gentle manner of Dr.Michael E DeBakey brought two events that I will never
forget While I was serving in the USAFR, I has a patient with a large abdominal aortic aneurysm who needed surgical intervention whom Dr.DeBakey accepted immediately for operation at Methodist Hospital. The patient retuned to me after the operation and he was grateful and full of praise for Dr.DeBakey for his kindness and gentle expert service.
The second...
Munir E Nassar
June 01, 2018 | Pittsford, NY