War vet has bullet pulled from heart
From Times Wire Reports
A Vietnamese soldier who was shot by U.S. troops in 1968 and has lived with a bullet lodged in his heart for nearly four decades has undergone surgery and the slug was successfully removed, doctors said
Le Dinh Hung, 60, is recovering quickly, said Dr. Nguyen Sinh Hien, who spent three hours operating on Hung at Hanoi Heart Hospital.
“It is the strangest case that I have ever seen,” Hien said. “Normally a person with a bullet in his heart would die immediately if they didn’t have surgery right away.”
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