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BENGALURU: India has lost its "Big Daddy" of cardiac surgery. Dr K. M. Cherian, the man whose hands restored hope and whose scalpel rewrote the history of heart care, breathed his last in Bengaluru.

India’s preeminent cardiac surgeon K.M. Cherian, who performed India’s first coronary bypass surgery, died in Bengaluru on Saturday (January 25, 2025). Only a couple of days ago his biography ...