{"id":45742,"date":"2014-10-20T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=45742"},"modified":"2014-10-20T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:33:00","slug":"forssman-crazy-pioneer-used-guinee-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/10\/20\/forssman-crazy-pioneer-used-guinee-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Forssman, the Heart Pioneer who Used Himself as a Guinea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading the illustrated walls of the hospital waiting room a couple of weeks ago, we learned this compelling little fact about\u00a0Werner Forssmann<\/a>, one of the pioneers of heart catheterization. He had the idea that you could thread\u00a0a healing device through an artery and into the heart.<\/p>\n Then he tried it on himself.<\/p>\n At Improvised Life, we are big believers in the “try things out” school of discovery and creating.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n