Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They had a wedding in Mayberry last week. Barney Fife (Don Knotts), decked out in his best city-slicker suit, finally walked down the aisle with his longtime heartthrob Thelma Lou. A beaming Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), Barney's old friend and ex-boss, was the best man. Even Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) was on hand to lead the red-robed choir...
...flurry of surgery marked an important transition in the use of artificial hearts. After the serious neurological complications in such earlier mechanical-heart recipients as Barney Clark, Jack Burcham and William Schroeder (who remains alive but brain-impaired after nearly 350 days with the Jarvik-7), the tide seems to be turning away from the use of artificial pumps as permanent fixtures. Instead, surgeons are beginning to implant them as emergency stopgap measures. This change of emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that...
...Smith Barney...
Like his predecessors, Barney Clark, William Schroeder, Murray Haydon and Swedish Patient Leif Stenberg, Burcham was a dy- ing man who gambled on the artificial heart to win a few extra months of life. "We were hoping that he would be able to live like Schroeder," said Jack B. Burcham, 41, the < patient's son, "but Dad was just too weak." (Schroeder has survived more than 150 days with his artificial heart; Barney Clark died after 112 days...
RECOVERING. William J. Schroeder, 53, artificial-heart recipient who at week's end had survived a record 133 days since the implant, 21 days longer than Barney Clark in 1983; in a special "transition apartment" to which he was moved last Saturday from Humana Hospital across the street, after making steady progress in recent weeks; in Louisville...