Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of receiving an artificial heart. "If you get it in right," Jack Burcham, a former railroad engineer, promised Implant Surgeon William DeVries, "I'll make it work." Getting it in right proved to be just the first of many difficulties faced by doctor and patient at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville. The cheerful father of four from Leroy, Ill., never really recovered from the initial surgery. Last week, just ten days after becoming the fifth and oldest human recipient of the Jarvik-7 heart, Burcham died, at 62. As DeVries later admitted, it was not clear whether the artificial...
Archibald's attentions are now focused solely on the newest arrivals to Baraboo, and if anybody can ignite their ardor, he can. As a kind of Don Juan of the Audubon set, he won fame in 1978 for tempting a female whooping crane to ovulate by imitating the elaborate courtship dances of the male. His installation has housed representatives of all 15 species of crane and has successfully overseen the hatching of rare chicks since...
...ARTIFICIAL HEART: ACT III A retired autoworker becomes the third recipient of the Jarvik-7 ONCE AGAIN THE SOUNDS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FILLED THE OPERATING ROOM AT HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...
...about 40 days to live. With this new heart I feel I have ten years." But last Thursday evening, as Schroeder sat in a chair eating dinner, his wife Margaret became alarmed when he abruptly froze and then fell unconscious. He had suffered what doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon called a "small but severe stroke...
...Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City to Humana Hospital Audubon, about 70 miles east of Jasper...