Bypass Special Series Slideshow: The Faces Behind the Story
WBBM Special Series: Bypass
This series by WBBM's Steve Miller is a personal look into heart disease - inside the doctor's office and the operating room - four months after he underwent emergency triple bypass surgery.
Here are some of the faces behind the stories...
Steve Miller
WBBM's Steve Miller hard at work in the studio. Fully recovered moths after his emergency triple bypass surgery.
Bypass Series Part 1: I'm A Cabbage Imagine going in for a routine medical test - and less than two weeks later you're having triple heart bypass surgery.
Bypass Series Part 2: Family History My diet has been good for at least 20 years. I've been a swimmer for 25 years. A runner for 15. So why, at age 52, did I need heart surgery?
Bypass Series Part 3: Flunking The Stress Test This all started with my doctor and his nurse practitioner Donna McGregor pushing me to have a treadmill stress test. Because heart disease runs in my family.
Bypass Series Part 5: Muhammed Hassan I wish I had had the foresight to document my own feelings on the eve of bypass surgery. But since I did not, other people with graciously agreed to talk with me hours before their own bypass surgery - one of the was Muhammed Hassan.
Web Exclusive Video - Footage From Inside the Operating Room
This footage was shot during a triple bypass surgery preformed by Steve Miller's surgeon Dr. Richard Lee. A special thanks to Howard Southerland, the patient (pictured at left).
This footage was shot during Sergio Isunza's angiogram preformed by doctor is Dr.Nirat Beohar. You can read/listen to more about the procedure below.
This footage was shot during Ana Arman's stress test. You can read/listen to more from the procedure below.
Listen Now - Listen to the entire series here
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 8 WBBM's Steve Miller had triple heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his experience with heart disease. Recently, he observed a bypass operation at Northwestern.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 7 WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his experience with heart disease. Recently, he was in the operating room for a bypass operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 6 WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago, and he's been reporting on his own experience with heart disease. Now he reports on other people who have shared their stories on the eve of their surgery.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 5 He flunked two treadmill stress tests, then chalked up a worrisome angiogram. Then four months ago, WBBM's Steve Miller had triple heart bypass surgery. He continues his reports now on heart disease.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 4 WBBM's Steve Miller has been describing his own experiences with heart disease - first flunking two stress tests, then taking the test that would determine whether he needed surgery. Here's that report.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 3 WBBM's Steve Miller has been describing his own experience with heart disease - four months now since his triple heart bypass surgery. He continues his reports with a look at the test that found the problem and changed his life.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 2 WBBM's Steve Miller had heart bypass surgery four months ago. Today he continues his story about heart disease with a look at the risk factor that's unchangeable: family history.
Bypass: A WBBM Special Series - Part 1 Imagine going in for a routine medical test - and less than two weeks later you're having triple heart bypass surgery. That's what happened to WBBM's Steve Miller. Today he begins his series with "Life as a Cabbage."
Eating For A Healthy Heart Find out tips for heart healthy eating from the Food and Drug Administration.
Atlas Of Heart Disease And Stroke Find out risk factors and prevention tips for heart disease prevention from the World Health Organization's Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke.
Cardiology Online Find out more information on heart issues at Cardiology Online.
