A true legend in OKC medicine has died.

http://m.newsok.com/article/5537317

First, in 1959, alongside Drs. Allen Greer and John Carey, Zuhdi performed the first heart bypass operation in Oklahoma and installed the first pacemaker in the state.
Then, in 1970, Zuhdi implanted a human patient with the aortic valve from a pig — the first such procedure performed in North America.
In 1985, Zuhdi performed the state's first human-to-human heart transplant, marking the first time in the United States that the procedure was performed in a hospital not associated with a medical school.
I don't want to change this to a political story but I wonder what his chances would have been if he was trying to come to the US today.

Zuhdi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 19, 1925, the son of a Syrian ophthalmologist father and Turkish mother.