. >> and barney - - barney clark said she was afraid he would not love her anymore. . >> and with those five primary doctors a and to be the fulcrum and those that you hang the history onto with the drive to succeed so give us a quick sketch of who these guys are. . >> i wanted to write the book i don't know how many of you remember but the most famous surgeon in the world of his tim time. he had to be leeward to houston and called baylor a third rate medical school he turned into a first-class institution and actually despitee his ego, he brought in excellent people from all over the country and all over the world and one of the people he brought in was a houston native. i don't know if you remember but he was from a fine family in houston one of the most handsome man who ever lived. [laughter] have got in trouble for saying that he looked like errol flynn and also one of the best surgeons who ever lived. when he started to do heart surgery they didn't have a heart lung machine you had to cart one - - cut into the heart and get out before the person had been problems. that this was the

but when barney clark got an artificial heart his wife was afraid he wouldn't love her anymore so we do still have these weird things. >> well, you've kind of told the story through the lives of five primary doctors and you read about bud frazier and he is the fulcrum in the history so you have denton cooley -- michael debakey first and then denton cooley and then buzz frazer and then billy comb and daniel timms as the kind of the people that you hang this history on, and they all have these big egos and sort of a drive to succeed which is what you need in this field. can you paint us a quick sketch of who these guys are? >> yeah. another reason i wanted to write the book, i don't know how many of you remember but michael debakey was a -- the most famous surgeon in the world of his time. he came to houston -- he had to be lured to houston. called baylor a third-rate medical school and he, through his will, really, turned it into a first-class institution. he actually disspeed the size of his egg go, which wouldn't fit the capitol, he brought in excellent people from all over the coun