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Mimi Swartz

Mimi Swartz is the executive editor of Texas Monthly and the author of Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart.

In a feat of surgical skill, Denton Cooley attached the temporary artificial heart device in only 47 minutes.

The Rivalry Between Two Doctors to Implant the First Artificial Heart

Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology