Lights, camera, action! Surgeon to open you up. Or cut the rib cartilage and create a small trapdoor to you. Creative problem solving. History. Mayo clinic shouldn’t get all the glory! Innovation. Do your homework. Head and Heart working together, in alignment. Hand in hand. Performed. Recorded. A stabbed and wounded heart. On a hot summer Chicago night in the late 1800’s, in the heart of the South Side, the worlds first documented successful heart surgery was performed by Daniel Hale Williams, son of a barber.