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Age 71-80
Interview HA09  

Interview HA09

Age at Interview: 77
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 69
Background: Retired Chartered Engineer; Married, 2 children
Brief outline:Heart attack 1995. Coronary artery bypass surgery September 1995 (Private). Current medication: aspirin, simvastatin, amlodipine, doxazosin, bendrofluazide, bisoprolol, enalapril


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He asked the surgeon how many bypass operations he had done before he consented to surgery.

 



I'm telling you this because one of the things that the surgeon told us was that the, one of the things that I wanted to know from the surgeon was how many of these things had he done. Was he, sort of, did he know what he was doing and he told me, this was September, he told me by that time he had done about 140 bypass operations that year. 

So that was you know, quite reassuring. And I also asked him what the prognosis was and he told me that 95% of all cases of, who have bypass surgery are successful, and 5% are not. So you've got a 1 in 20, is it? yes 1 in 20 chance that something might go wrong and I said what can go wrong. 

He said mostly what can go wrong is that you get some kind of sepsis and we can fix that. So I thought the odds were pretty good, bearing in mind that my cardiologist said I've got to have this done, not much choice.
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