US heart surgeon’s suicide

GROUNDBREAKING US heart surgeon, who killed himself on St Stephen’s Day, wrote a suicide note in which he complained, “The world is not ready for me.”

Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, was chief of paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Last year he performed the first successful implant of a life-saving miniature heart pump in a child.

In his five-page suicide note, he railed against some of his colleagues at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio where he worked previously.