31.   Did you know that when Dan Reeves went in for his mid-December bypass operation, surgeons had a terrible time getting him set right on the table?

32.   Earlier studies showed that black Medicare beneficiaries, compared to whites, undergo fewer than half as many heart bypass operations or artery-opening angioplasty procedures.

33.   Fritcher only managed to get himself back to Pearl Harbor, he said, because a Texas surgeon fixed him up with a quintuple bypass operation.

34.   Frustrated, he traveled to Brussels, Belgium, for a triple bypass operation under the Belgian state health system.

35.   He hopes the bypass operation leaves him in better condition than before.

36.   He may soon recover all his legendary energy, as so many people do from bypass operations.

37.   He underwent a quintuple heart bypass operation in November, spent nearly two weeks in a clinic and was forced to cancel two international engagements.

38.   Heart bypass operations that require a deep chest incision could soon be done with no more than a skin cut.

39.   If the new heart bypass operation becomes widely accepted, it will cut costs and allow patients to make a quicker and less painful recovery.

40.   In a standard coronary bypass operation, surgeons make a foot-long incision in the chest, split the breast bone and stop the heart.