One Reporter's Hero: C. Everett Koop
If any journalist in Washington has a reason to mourn the passing of C. Everett Koop, it’s The Daily Caller‘s Alex Pappas. “So sad to hear of C. Everett Coop’s passing,” he wrote on Twitter Monday. “He operated on – and saved the life of – my mom when she was a baby with rare heart condition.”
Indeed, in 1960, Pappas’ mother was an infant living in Martinsburg, West Virginia. She had been diagnosed with a rare heart condition called A-V fistula of the coronary arteries.
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