# Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart

Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TalGolesworthy_2011X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TalGolesworthy_2011X?play=1)