http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/...pass/index.html

Funny story about how the first choice to do Clinton's surgery didn't end up working out...

 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/09/06/clint...ctor/index.html

"I said, 'I'm on vacation,' " Isom recalled in a telephone interview.

 

"And he said, 'Well, it's an important person.'

 

"And I said, 'Well, they're all important.' And I had a tee time at 9 o'clock.

 

"He said, 'Well, they want you.'

 

"And I said, 'Who is it?'

 

"And he said, 'I can't tell you. It's an important person.'

 

"I said, 'If you can't tell me, then I'm going to play golf.' "