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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —   A Kansas City doctor, Geoffrey Hartzler, died over the weekend.
You may not know the name, but you probably know someone whose life has been saved or improved by the procedure that Dr. Hartzler pioneered.

FOX 4 Medical Reporter Meryl Lin McKean explains he was the first to perform angioplasty on a heart attack patient.