Bugger. He has the same symptoms I have, and I've been poked and prodded by cardiac surgeons for a year now... they've finally decided, 8 months after the original exploratory op, to give me the op that should cure me (or turn me into a drooling, shambling wreck). The ramifications are this - he will have his op and be up chasing interns before I've got a date for mine.

LTS