Sustaining the genius of persistence“It’s easy to look back and think that there was a brilliant plan. But it wasn’t that at all — we started out to solve a problem, and then another, and then another. It was just persistence, sticking with a problem until it was solved, with a big team of people, with some phenomenal researchers, trying to keep people alive who were going to die.” Robert Bartlett, M.D. |
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Deeply interested in the history of medicine, Bob Bartlett has over the 40-plus years of his career made history of his own. His work to save the lives of critically ill children and adults via extended heart-lung support led the American Surgical Association to give him its rarely bestowed Medallion for Scientific Achievement in 2002. Now working on an artificial lung and non-clotting synthetic surfaces — advances with huge life-saving potential — Bob Bartlett views each day as the opportunity to save another life.