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Dr. Devi Shetty: The Heart Surgeon Who Redefined Affordable Healthcare

Dr. Devi Shetty: The Heart Surgeon Who Redefined Affordable Healthcare In the small village of Kinnigoli, Karnataka, in 1953, a young Devi Prasad Shetty, the eighth of nine children, heard about Christiaan Barnard’s groundbreaking heart transplant. “That’s it,” he told his schoolteacher, eyes wide with determination, “I’m going to be a heart surgeon.” That spark […]