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Animal-rights activists across the nation have come out in droves to denounce the operation as "useless" and "goulish tinkering." Also, several doctors and government officials have called for increased regulation of new procedures given the suddenness and uncensured nature of Bailey's operation...
Baby Fae's condition could possibly have been corrected by the Norwood operation, says Castenada. He emphasized that unless Bailey had developed some novel technique for supressing the immune system after the transplant he would be critical of the doctor for ignoring other methods...
...Bailey, who prior to this operation was not a leader in the organ transplant field, has not published any information on xenographs or on transplants in general for that matter, according to the press office...
...another question arises around the self selection of physicians to perform the controversial transplants. Several transplant specialists--many doctors at Harvard affiliated hospitals among them--have questioned whether doctors like Bailey, who are relatively unknown and unpublished, should be allowed to conduct such dangerous and widely-publicized operation on a child...
...Bailey says he had consulted the parents of Baby Fae and "completely informed them of all other possibilities to save their child's life." And the Loma Linda Ethics Board, made-up of citizens and doctors, reviewed and gave approval to the operation, says spokesperson Baker...