our first patient at mayo clinic, right of her here linda , stout, she was a five-year-old girl from bismarck, north dakota. she was dying of a heart defect. she had a short time to live. her parents brought her here with no other hope. her life was saved in a machine just like this. that is her sixth birthday party a few months after her operation. she has had a wonderful life. a lovely person. i have interviewed her a number of times. linda came back to mayo clinic on the 50th anniversary of her heart surgery as a guest of honor at a surgical congress. and look what she gave us. she gave us her autographed get book and her get well cards that her mother had saved for her. we tell our new employees when they come in here on their tour, behind every invention at the mayo clinic, there is always a linda. it was really sweet. typical autograph book. she has her world famous surgeon's autograph. she has got the cleaning lady's autograph. the landlady of her rooming house, the kid in the bed next to her, all jumbled together. you see her scrawl of her name. wayhad an innocent, lovely wit

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our first patient at the mayo ,linic over here, linda stout she was a five-year-old girl from bismarcknorth dakota. she was dying of a heart defect. she had a short time to live. her parents brought her here with no other hope. her life was saved on a machine like this. that is her sixth birthday party. she has had a wonderful life, interviewed her a number of times. clinicame back to mayo on the 50th anniversary of her heart surgery as a guest of that a surgical congress. she gave us her autograph book herher get well cards mother had saved for her. we tell our employees when they come in on their tour behind every invention that mayo clinic there is always a winner. it was always sweet. typical autograph book, she has her world-famous surgeon's autograph, the cleaning lady's autograph, the kid in the bed next to her all jumbled together and you see her childish scrawl here. she had an innocent way of all these good people who were all around her. she tells the story, she described this vividly, she was young, five years old. the night before her surgery, what she remembers are these