Surgeon Who Saved Biden’s Life Recalls Fateful Prediction

Dr. Neal Kassell was standing by the door to the operating room when then-Sen. Joe Biden was wheeled in for a second aneurysm operation in May 1988. Biden reached up from the gurney and grabbed the neurosurgeon’s arm. “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘Doc, do a good job, because someday I’m going to be president,’” Kassell told The Daily Beast on Saturday, after his former patient’s prediction had come true. Biden rode the gurney on into the…