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...Barney Clark...
...could doubt the wisdom of the choice. The dentist from Des Moines, Wash., may have been in failing health, but it was clear from the moment he set foot in the University of Utah Medical Center that Barney Clark was a dauntless spirit. "A rugged old Rocky Mountain sagebrush. Tough. Eager for life." That was how Dr. Chase Peterson, a university vice president, described the man who was to make medical history. Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial...
...heart that Barney Clark received thus represented more than a quarter of a century of research. Like Kolff's original device, it is powered by air, compressed by an external electric pump. Two 6-ft.-long air tubes, which emerge from beneath the rib cage, connect the heart to the pump and to emergency tanks of compressed air and other equipment, all of which are stored on a cart. Total weight of the awkward external system...
...will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology." But preventing heart disease, as Thomas readily admits, is a long way off. Says Dr. William Friedewald, associate director of the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: "Of course, our goal is prevention, to have no Barney Clarks in the future, but right now that's pipe-dreaming...
Then late last month there was a sudden turnaround. Returning from a brief business trip, Berenson met Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...