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CarStuff

How the Jaws of Life Work

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

They're a household name in the United States, but what exactly are the Jaws of Life? Where do they come from? Can they really save you in an accident? Join Scott and Ben as they learn more about this life-saving, surprisingly simple invention.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.8

People called them murderers.

0:07.1

Ten years later, they were gods.

0:09.7

Today, no one knows their names.

0:12.2

A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment

0:15.3

who risked everything to invent open-heart surgery.

0:19.0

Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine.

0:21.8

I'm Chris Pine, and this is Cardiac Cowboys.

0:25.1

If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers, you will love cardiac

0:29.4

cowboys.

0:30.5

Listen on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:34.5

Sponsored by Jasper, AI Build for Marketers.

0:38.2

Malcolm Gladwell here.

0:39.3

This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in

0:43.9

northwest Alabama where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.

0:49.0

And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.

0:51.7

That's probably not long enough.

0:53.7

And I didn't kill them.

0:55.5

From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders. Listen to Revisionous History,

1:01.5

the Alabama murders on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07.9

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, and so I pointed the gun

1:13.5

at him and said, this isn't a joke. A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old, and a centenarian

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