our first patient at mayo clinic, right of her here, linda stout, she was a five-year-old girl from bismarck, north dakota. she was dying of a heart defect. she had a short time to live. her parents brought her here with no other hope. her life was saved in a machine just like this. that is her sixth birthday party a few months after her operation. she has had a wonderful life. a lovely person. i have interviewed her a number of times. linda came back to mayo clinic on the 50th anniversary of her heart surgery as a guest of honor at a surgical congress. and look what she gave us. she gave us her autographed book and her get well cards that her mother had saved for her. we tell our new employees when they come in here on their tour, behind every invention at the mayo clinic, there is always a linda. it was really sweet. typical autograph book. she has her world famous surgeon's autograph. she has got the cleaning lady's autograph. the landlady of her rooming house, the kid in the bed next to her, all jumbled together. you see her scrawl of her name. she had an innocent, lovely way with all th

and our first patient at mayo clinic right over here, linda stout. she was a 5-year-old girl from bismarck, north dakota. she was dying of a heart defect. she had a very short time to live. her parents brought her here with no other hope. her life was saved on a machine just like this. that's actually her 6th birthday party a few months after her operation. she had a wonderful life. a lovely person. i interviewed her a number of times. now, it's really fun. linda came back to mayo clinic on the 50th anniversary of her heart surgery. she was our guest of honor at a surgical conference. look what she gave us. she gave us her autograph book and get-well cards her mother saved for her. we tell our new employees when they come on the tour, behind every invention at mayo clinic there is always a linda. what's sweet -- my daughters have done this -- typical autograph book, she's got her world famous surgeon's autograph, she has the cleaning lady's autograph, the kid in the bed next to her all jumbled together. you see her childish scrawl here. she had an in