Forest Dewey Dodrill
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Forest Dewey Dodrill was a doctor at Harper University Hospital at Wayne State University in Michigan.
Forest Dewey Dodrill was born on 26 January, 1902, in Webster Spring. After receiving a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in 1925, he attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1930. Dodrill was an intern and resident at Harper Hospital in Detroit, and he got a M.Ch. degree from the University of Michigan in 1942.
On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek. He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to be he first operational mechanical heart used while performing open heart surgery.
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