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A Matter of the Heart
11.27.12
On Wednesday, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has arranged the first meeting between a donor’s family, Deborah Atkinson and Nick Atkinson, who donated the heart of husband and father Dusty Atkinson in 1992, and the man whose life it saved, retired Newport Beach lawyer Dennis Harwood. The heart surgeons Dr. Aidan Raney and Dr. Douglas Zusman who performed the life-saving transplant 20 years ago will also be there.
Today, Heart & Vascular Institute is one of the world’s most advanced cardiac operating suites (pictured above) with a hybrid cardiovascular operating room that includes a custom robot—designed by BMW and featuring an imaging system with 3D and 4D reconstructive software—that is used to see blood vessels, tissues and organs during cardiac surgery, angioplasty and endovascular procedures.
To find out more about the heart transplant story, read here [url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dusty-377879-harwood-heart.html]http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dusty-377879-harwood-heart.html[/url]
Hoag Hospital is at One Hoag Drive in Newport Beach. For more information, visit [url=http://www.hoag.org]http://www.hoag.org[/url].
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Bloom Beautiful
11.27.12
Orange County based author Stacey Robbins is releasing Bloom Beautiful on Wednesday, a book full of inspiring quotes from blogs, postings and other writings that make it a perfect gift for sisters, girlfriends, teachers and really anyone that you would like to be encouraged and uplifted. It's a charming, insightful, encouraging book with bite-sized bits of wisdom, wrapped in creative artwork by Susannah Parrish who does work for Amy Grant, Trace Adkins, Kevin Costner and Toby Mac.
If you order by Wednesday, the books will be shipped out by Dec. 10 and Stacey is including a special gift in the first orders
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