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On ThisDayInHistory, a Seattle dentist named Barney Clark became the first human recipient of a permanent artificial heart. | HISTORY TV18 | Scoopnest
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Thomas Morris on Twitter: "Artificial hearts had been used before: in 1968 the Houston surgeon Denton Cooley implanted one into Haskell Karp, a patient with advanced heart failure, in a hugely controversial
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