Bad Ass Engineer Of The Day: Back in 2000, British engineer Tal Golesworhty was told he suffered from Marfan Syndrome, a heart disorder of the connective tissue that often causes a ruptured aorta.
The standard treatment was an extreme 5-hour surgery that required a heart-lung bypass to replace the aorta with a graft and a medical valve. Then, the patient had to get on a regimen of highly risky blood thinners. Needless to say, to a process engineer, this was not a prognosis, it was a g