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The heart patient who is slated to become the world’s fifth recipient of a permanent man-made heart this morning was joking and confident as he rested for the operation in Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky. Jack C. Burcham of Le Roy, Ill., suffered a near-fatal attack in October and “was given up for dead,” one of the Humana doctors said. He has had to use oxygen at all times and can barely sit up or walk even a few steps.
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