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Werner Forssmann
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Werner Forßmann was a physician from Eberswalde, Germany. He is credited with the first catheterization of a human heart. In 1929, he made an incision into his arm and fed a urinary catheter into the right atrium of his own heart. He then walked down a flight of stairs to the radiology department, where he had a x-ray taken showing the catheter in his heart. Although he was fired from the hospital for this, …
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