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Machines in our hearts
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ISBN: 0801876168 9780801876165 0801865794 9780801865794 Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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Abstract

As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.

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