i hope none of us have to go through this kind of "bullshit"
Heart Procedure for Parcells
Published: April 17, 1992
Bill Parcells, the coach of the Giants until he resigned last May, will undergo a heart procedure today for the third time in four months. Dr. Patrick Whitlow, a cardiologist, is scheduled to perform an atherectomy on the 50-year-old Parcells at the Cleveland Clinic. Parcells is expected to remain in the hospital overnight and be discharged tomorrow.
Four months ago today, at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., Parcells underwent an angioplasty procedure to clear his left anterior descending artery, which had a blockage of 95 percent to 99 percent. In that procedure, an inflated balloon compresses the plaque that blocks the artery. In February, the angioplasty was repeated.
Parcells was still not feeling well, and an examination at the Cleveland Clinic led to the decision to perform an atherectomy. In this procedure, the plaque is scraped from the artery walls or destroyed by laser. Dan Reeves, the head coach of the Denver Broncos, underwent an atherectomy in August 1990.