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Cheney needed a stent to prop open clogged artery. >> are you ready to take the oath? >> i am. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> yet again, modern medicine had helped dick cheney dodge a bullet. but nine months later cheney confronted what he considers one of the biggest challenges of his life, 9/11. with president bush in florida, cheney was in a bunker under the white house helping make decisions, even given authority by the president to shoot down passenger airliners. i mean, as far as stress goes, and again as a doctor with your heart history, how worried were you abo...

>> what cheney didn't know is his cardiologist showing his pa tas yum levels were dangerously high. >> a concern, how big are we talking about? >> potassium 6.9 can kill you. >> this is a huge problem. >> i laid awake last night watching the replay of the towers come down and not think great, the president is going to die tonight. >> another blood test the next day showed cheney's potassium levels were normal but a reminder, he is no ordinary patient and caring for him often required extraordinary precautions. in 2007 when cheney needed the implanted defibrillator in place, the doctor ordered ...

Goes, and again as a doctor with your heart history, how worried were you about just your health in the midst of all this? >> didn't occur to me. >> not at all? >> no. i didn't think about my health. i was thinking about the problem we were dealing with. >> what cheney didn't know was that his cardiologist, jonathan reiner, had received the results of a blood test that morning showing his potassium levels were dangerously high, a condition called hyperchelinia. >> big concern. how big are we talk about? >> potassium 6.9 can kill you. >> this is a huge problem. >> yeah. i laid awake that night ...