A Heart Pump Ticks Down, and a Stranger Steps In to Help

Monday, August 9, 2010 - 19:56 in Health & Medicine

With the batteries running out on his mechanical heart, 67-year-old Christian Volpe was in a panic. That’s where Robert Bump came in.

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