Denton Cooley & Michael DeBakey Signed 5x7 Photo (JSA COA)

Photo measures 5" x 7" in size and is hand-signed in black felt tip pen by Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey. Denton Cooley is the surgeon who performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart.

It's considered one of medicine's best-known feuds: two brilliant and egotistical doctors on the frontiers of cardiovascular surgery, whose falling-out divided a community and became the stuff of legend.

Immortalized in a Life magazine cover story, the rift persisted for decades. Although the competition spurred them to achievements that transformed the Texas Medical Center into the world's heart treatment center, the former collaborators avoided each other and barely spoke.

Autograph includes an official JSA hologram and matching COA for authenticity purposes.

Authentication: JSA COA

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