Clinton &#39;awake and alert&#39; a day after surgery
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NEW YORK - Former president Bill Clinton was alert and talking today, a day after undergoing a heart operation to bypass four severely clogged arteries.
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Bill Clinton, the former American president, should be sufficiently on the mend within a few days to leave hospital. Once a quadruple heart bypass patient has climbed a flight of stairs, he is usually deemed fit for discharge.
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Clinton, 58, who had complained of chest pain and fatigue (see &quot;Former President Bill Clinton To Undergo Heart Surgery&quot;), had a quadruple-coronary artery-bypass operation at 8 am on Monday, according to CNN.
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NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton was in the operating room Monday for heart bypass surgery, a hospital source told The Associated Press.    Preparations for the surgery began at about 6:45 a.m...
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Former President Bill Clinton's heart bypass, expected Monday, likely will be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart, not some new whiz-bang robotic or "keyhole" surgery, leading surgeons say. A source close to the former president who spoke on condition of anonymity said Clinton has told him the surgery was scheduled for Monday morning...
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Former President Bill Clinton had bypass surgery today at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian hospital, a statement said.
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NEW YORK - Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains and shortness of breath Friday and will undergo heart bypass surgery in an operation that could sideline the former president at the height of the campaign for the White House.    An angiogram showed that Clinton, who turned 58 two weeks ago, had significant blockage in his heart arteries but did not suffer a heart attack, a doctor who performed the test told The Associated Press...
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group will call Wednesday for hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery - a sometimes horrifying experience
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NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton is back on his feet three days after heart bypass surgery. His office says Clinton has been taking short walks in the hallway outside his room at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
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Doctors began heart bypass surgery on former U.S. President Bill Clinton at a top New York hospital early on Monday morning, CNN reported.
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It&#39;s just seven weeks since his heart surgery, but Bill Clinton was able to bring some extra energy to the John Kerry campaign ono Monday.
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All at once the city&#39;s most famous hospital patient, former President Bill Clinton yesterday received flowers, balloons, phone calls and thousands of e-mail&#39;ed get-well
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Former President Bill Clinton was resting Saturday in a New York hospital in preparation for heart bypass surgery next week. Clinton, 58, was admitted Friday to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital after an angiogram
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NEW YORK - Former US president Bill Clinton, 58, checked into a Manhattan hospital yesterday with chest pains and will soon undergo bypass surgery, his office announced.
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Sen. Tim Johnson has been conscious at times since his emergency brain surgery last week, his spokeswoman said Monday. But he is currently being sedated so he can rest.
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New US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is to undergo surgery at a Washington hospital tomorrow. She will remain overnight at the hospital and return to work in the next day or so, a US government spokesman says.
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Former President Bill Clinton will have heart bypass surgery early next week after being rushed to a top New York hospital on Friday complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath.