Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became a kind of paramedic-in-training, reading literature about the operation and the man who performed it, Dr. William DeVries. She sought second, third, even fourth opinions from experts in the field. Yet she never lost sight of the human drama. At briefings for reporters at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, she found herself "slipping in questions about the decor of Schroeder's hospital room between questions about whether there was too much fluid in his lungs...
...Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, where the operation took place, has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to perform another five artificial-heart implants. One candidate is now in the hospital for evaluation, but will most likely be turned down. At the same time, two Southern girls are scheduled for complex variations of organ replacements this month. Cynthia Bratcher, 6, of Scottsville, Ky., will be taken to Birmingham for an operation that will install a second heart inside her. Meanwhile, Mary Cheatham, 17, of Fort Worth, will go to Pittsburgh for simultaneous transplanting of heart and liver...
Doctors at Louisville's Humana Hospital Audubon were astounded by Schroeder's rapid progress and by his good humor, which, noted Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, "is more important in his recovery than most medicines...
...library's stacks include first edition of Dan Quixote and Homer's, as well as Audubon's original bird illustrations...
...affair. Reagan, whose job rating has dropped 12% since January, gave campaign speeches to 7,600 in Waterloo's Cattle Congress auditorium (only the Rolling StoneMn 1981, drew a bigger crowd) and to 7,000 more in Des Moines. Like most lowans, Democrat Sam Kauffman, a barber in Audubon (pop. 2,841), got a kick out of all the national attention. Said he "We don't get the chance for that kind of limelight very often...