Archives : | News Features Advertisement Marketplace August 1, 2005 Life goes on By ROBIN LORD Dr. Robert Rizzo asks for a special set of scissors and snips around Fred Slade's damaged aortic valve. The lives of the cardiac surgeon and the retired Stop & Shop truck driver have intersected in a Cape Cod Hospital operating room on this cool and drizzly morning in April 2004. Cardiac surgeon Dr. Robert Rizzo replaces Fred Slade's damaged aortic valve with a pig's valve during a five-hour open heart operation last year. Related: Part 1: Slade, 71, of Yarmouth, has entrusted his open heart surgery to Rizzo, an intense physician who divides his time between Cape Cod Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An avid golfer, Fred had envisioned his retirement years filled with days on the links, on the Cape and during winter trips to F

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