Stress Management

y Victor Parachin
The Associated Press recently carried a story
about the death of Dr. Rene Favaloro, the
surgeon who pioneered coronary bypass
surgery. This is an operation now routinely performed
on millions of people each year. In 1967,
Dr. Favaloro performed the first by-pass operation
on a 51-year-old woman at the Cleveland Clinic in
Ohio, using a vein taken from the patient’s leg to
detour blood around blockages in her heart. The
success of that surgery has led to many, many others,
and today millions of people are alive because