A doctor saved my life thirty years ago when everyone believed I wouldn’t make it—yesterday, I saw him again and changed his life.

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My heart stopped on the operating table.

The attending surgeon looked over my scans and said there wasn’t time to transfer me. Another doctor warned that opening my chest might only cut short what little time I had left.

A fever turned into chest pain.

Dr. Bennett took off his glasses, cleaned them on his sleeve, and said, “Then I’ll give continue reading …