Heart: An American Medical Odyssey (44 page)

Dr. Reiner, circa 1964.

With Dr. Jonathan Reiner and Dr. Alan Wasserman, leaving GW Hospital, March 6, 2001.
Official White House Photo by David Bohrer; Presidential Materials Division, National Archives and Records Administration

Drs. Jonathan Reiner, Alan Wasserman, and Sung Lee at the press conference after the ICD implant, June 30, 2001.
Getty Images/Greg Whitesell

Internal components of an ICD.
Reproduced with permission of Medtronic, Inc.

Popliteal aneurysm repair team, September 24, 2005.
From left to right:
Dr. Ryan Bosch, Dr. Anthony Venbrux, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Dr. Barry Katzen, and Dr. Peter Gloviczki.

In my West Wing office, April 2008.
Official White House Photo by David Bohrer; Presidential Materials Division, National Archives and Records Administration

In the West Wing, April 2008.
From left to right:
Dr. Cindy Tracy, Dr. Ryan Bosch, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, and Col. (Dr.) Lewis Hofmann.
Official White House Photo by David Bohrer; Presidential Materials Division, National Archives and Records Administration

Cover of
The New Yorker
from August 30, 2004.
Copyright © 2004. Originally published in
The New Yorker.
Reprinted by permission.

One tabloid’s take on the cardiac technologies from which I benefitted.
Photo by David Bohrer/ The White House

Schematic diagram of HeartMate II LVAD system.
Photograph courtesy of Thoratec Corporation

With my surgeon Dr. Alan Speir at Inova Fairfax Hospital four days after the heart transplant.
Photograph courtesy of Liz Cheney

Components of the explanted VAD.
Photograph courtesy of Thoratec Corporation

With Liz at Inova Fairfax Hospital four days after the heart transplant.
Photograph courtesy of Alan Speir, MD