Echocardiography

When famed Harvard cardiologist Paul Dudley White visited Lund University in 1956, Edler demonstrated his technique and White “uttered a polite dismissal: ‘an ingenious method.’ Later in the same year, Edler had the opportunity to present the technique to André F. Cournand, who was visiting Lund after receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm for his early work in heart catheterization. . . . Dr. Cournand also showed no interest in this noninvasive technique. . . . Edler felt let down by his international colleagues and was not hesitant to publish” (Singh & Goyal, 435).