he was the seattle dentist in 1982 implanted with an artificial heart invented by robert jarvis and it was the first real media it was a huge media coverage reporters were sneaking into the hospital in laundry bags. [laughter] it was supposed to be this great medical triumph of innovation but because it was an experiment it wasn't billed that way but it was he survived in the heart worked inl fact, that heart is still in use today as a variation. but then he declined and eventually died. 's of people were watching on their television first drive and then decline and the public turned on medical innovation at the time. what i saw in my reporting you have this invention and then it wouldn't work perfectly so these ethical investigationsti then they get the device to work then it is hailed as progress like transplants and then move on to the next innovation and it happens over and over we say we want innovation but only when it works and it doesn't always work the first time so anybody who has been in a clinical trial for cancer knows that's why they are called clinical trials. to call hi