Political Quotes

“I will be brief. But what is fascinating is that with science and with the great progress that is made, today it can be cured, where before it couldn't. What is interesting about the overall story is that Mohammed's father, Fateh, about a year ago--this is over in Afghanistan--brought his son to an American military hospital, reaching out, not knowing where to go. The province is the Khowst Province. He happened to run across my colleagues, or colleagues in the military, who are cardiologists, who are heart specialists. And looking at the blue appearance--because you don't get this oxygen flow through the heart, blood through the right side of the heart--they said it was probably tetralogy of Fallot. With a few tests they made the diagnosis and they petitioned Mohammed to come to the States for treatment, but the visa applications by Mohammed and his dad, Fateh, were initially denied. But somewhere out there was a little angel looking out, and sure enough they ran into a fellow who happened to be a student of mine back at Vanderbilt, Dr. Sloane Guy, whom I hadn't seen for a while, and I was with him at a time when he was looking to the future, didn't know where he was going, whether it was heart medicine, cardiology, heart surgery. He was on active duty in Afghanistan. He called me and said: Isn't there anything that we can do?…”