dr. cooley got his own hospital, well, then dr. debakey had to have a bigger hospital. if dr. cooley did something dramatic, dr. debakey had to do something more famous. and the reason that bud fraser is the main character in my book because he studied with both of these people and devoted his life to an artifical heart and the people that they attracted were equally eccentric, i don't know if you know dr. cohn. he's a harvard trained surgeon, but he's also a magician and plays trombone in a band and he-- i don't think the guy sleeps, and then billy had -- and he's also a spectacular inventor, but one day he was in his office waiting to-- every week he would see people with inventions just to tell them, yes, no, maybe this will work and there was some kid coming in from australia and he could barely bring himself to meet with the guy and this kid comes in with his backpack and takes a device out of it wrapped in rags and he says i think this will work as an artifical heart. and because billy is an inventor, he looked at this thing and excuse me, he said holy s-- this is it. and