World 'not ready' for suicide surgeon

A 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”.

World 'not ready' for suicide surgeon

A 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.

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