Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern MedicineSince the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others have faded into history. Much of the improved survival and change in attitudes can be traced to the work of Eugene Braunwald, MD. In the 1960s, he proved that myocardial infarction was not a "bolt from the blue" but a dynamic process that plays out over hours and thus could be altered by