Bullet hit rib
Doctors made a 15cm incision across . President Reagan’s chest and removed a bullet from his lung during a two-hour operation yesterday.
The President was said to be “in stable and good condition” with an “excellent” prognosis for recovery, a spokesman for George Washington University Hospital said.
Dr Dennis O’Leary of the hospital said a single bullet had entered President Reagan’s chest, . ricocheted off his seventh rib, and .penetrated 7cm into the.lowpr left lobe,of his lung. “He was at no time in any serious, danger,” said Dr O’Leary of the 70-year-old President.
He said that the operation took , two hours because the surgeons spent part of the time . ascertaining that the President had no blood in his abdomen, and indeed he had not.
Dr O’Leary said surgeons made a 15cm incision in the President from just underneath his left nipple over to his armpit. ■ He called the ’President “an ,excellent,physical specimen. We do, riot anticipate, any problems.” He said the President .was likely-to'be in moderate pain for a day or two, but could not predict how long he would be in hospital.
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