"There's nothing to it but to do it, you've got to have heart!"

There I was, sitting up on Dr.Kaplan's examining table just a few days after having visited my cardiologist here in Boca.
I felt a tad perplexed because seven years prior I had flown to the celebrated Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland to get my aortic valve replaced by the he'd of the Cleveland Clinic heart & lung division. "This should last a good twenty years" I was told after my eight and a half hour operation....

"Uh oh,, I hear a leak from your aortic valve," Dr K told me. "What? My fancy schmancy cardiologist here said I was fine," I shockingly replied. At that point Dr. K called in his nurse, gave her his stethoscope, and asked her to listen. She listened intensely and agreed.

Yes, Dr. Brian Kaplan, formerly the head emergency ward physician at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, heard when my specialist did not!" Soooo, the next week I was off to Cleveland again, another eight-nine hours on the table, where Dr. Pers Wierup, regarded as the #1 aorta physician in the world, replaced the old valve with a new one and had a few other procedures done while I was catching those induced zzzzzzzz.

Dr. Brian Kaplan has saved my life! No question about it. I was "just a kid of 78" at that time and without that immediate
discovery the odds are I would have been on the root side of the grass. Hey, the head of an emergency ward has to be great and make quick decisions. I have been with Dr. K for more than ten years now and actually looked forward to each visit. He is brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Knows his "stuff" like a savant. He knows anatomy, knows prescriptions, is up to date on every new medical development. I have yet to meet his match. And that statement must qualify for the under-statement of this century. If MDVIP allowed tipping I'd get a weekend job pumping gas.

Because the life he saves was mine!!!