Medical technology is AMAZING, and not just what they can do here in the United States. For those of you who refresh news websites as often as I do, then you may have already heard about the baby boy born in a remote village in India with his heart outside his chest. By the next day this newborn and his father had made a 1100 km (about 683 miles) journey to a hospital in New Delhi for an operation to contain the heart within the a space between the chest and abdomen as well as remove the infection the little baby suffered during the journey.
Read the stories at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/03/india.dangling.heart/index.html and http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/02/india.heart/index.html and read the father's story at... http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/01/india.heart.father/index.html.
This is quite an interesting story, and isn't the first time this has happened. In 2006, doctors in Florida did a similar operation.
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