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The toughness of the report may reflect the person Guidant appointed to head the effort, Dr. Robert J. Myerburg, a professor of medicine at the University of Miami. Dr. Myerburg, 69, has been involved in some of the landmark studies supporting the critical value of defibrillators, electrical devices that sense and interrupt potentially fatal heart rhythms. Dr. Myerburg said that he and other physicians on the panel had an immediate realization when they began work: for years, device makers had not provided them with detailed data on defibrillator failure, and they, as doctors, had been so taken with the life-saving technology that they had never asked for that data.