some -- bud frazier, some of you may know him. this is about how he got started -- why he decided to go into this field and he is this wonderful eccentric west texan. and this starts right when he is don with -- still in med school. even so, he had already decided to specialize in heart surgery. the death toll from heart disease was skyrocketing in 1963. every day another patient at methodist died because the doctors had so little to offer. there was one patient in particular whose terrified pleading expression would stay with bud nor rest of his life. he had worked up a medical history for one of doctor debakey's growing lift of international patients, 17-year-old italian boy who was only a few years younger than bud himself. students who did the workup got to scrub in on the patient's surgery. bud was there no what the expected to be a routine replacement of a damageed aortic valve. the kid was thin but handsome, dark eyes and thick black hair. optimistic, he was eager to go home. his mother was with him. the surgery went fine,