Cooley was born on August 22, 1920 in Houston Texas to Ralph and Mary Cooley. Today he is 95 years old and he is very well, still alive. Cooley also has Brother named Ralph. They’re of the “Anglican/Episcopalian religion.” Denton’s father was a dentist and he hoped that his son would follow him into Dentistry but medicine called. He went to college for medicine and never looked back. Denton went to San Jacinto High School and was a great student and also basketball player. After High School Denton went to College at the University of Texas and Graduated in 1941. He trained at Johns Hopkins (Where he discovered surgery) in 1950 and after that he spent a year with Lord Russel Brock in London. In 1946 Denton went to the Army for 2 years. In the …show more content…
Cooley also has authored or co-authored more than 1,400 scientific articles and 12 books, his most known book is 100,000 Heart, in ‘100,000 Hearts, Cooley tells about his childhood in Houston and his experiences as a basketball scholarship recipient at the University of Texas.” “After medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Johns ‘Hopkins, Cooley served in the Army Medical Corps. While at Johns Hopkins, Cooley assisted in a cutting- edge operation to correct an infant 's congenital heart defect, which made him want to specialize in Heart Surgeries. “Cooley 's detailed descriptions of what it was like to be in the operating room at crucial points in medical history offer a fascinating perspective on how far medical science has progressed in just a few decades. Dr. Denton Cooley and the Texas Heart Institute are responsible for much of that progress.” In 1969, he implanted an artificial heart in a human being for the first time. The patient, Haskell Karp lived for 64 hours with the implanted device before it could be replaced with a donor’s heart. The patient however died a day after the second operation and questions were asked about the doctor’s choice to implant the artificial heart in the first