Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Bailey claimed that the drastic condition of Baby Fae before the operation led him to believe that a time-consuming search for a suitable human heart would simply cost Baby Fae her life. "We did not search for any human hearts before the operation," he says in a press statement. The Loma Linda Medical Center however has refused to make public either the data on Baby Fae herself, or the deliberation before conducting the operation. "The hospital regards all information on Baby Fae as private," says Jessical Baker, spokesperson...
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at Harvard affiliated hospitals among them--have questioned whether doctors like Bailey, who are relatively unknown and unpublished, should be allowed to conduct such dangerous and widely-publicized operation on a child...