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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barney Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death of a Gallant Pioneer | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death of a Gallant Pioneer | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...plastic heart recipient Barney Clark still faces problems

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling Much Better, Thank You | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...patient was weak, exhausted, his face looking almost pained when it flashed onto the television screen, and his comments were haltingly slow. But it was not the mechanical heart that troubled Barney Clark as he gave his first public interview since his historic operation on Dec. 1. "The heart has pumped right along. It doesn't bother me at all," he told his surgeon, Dr. William DeVries, who conducted the session on videotape at the University of Utah Medical Center. Instead, it was his lungs, permanently damaged by years of poor circulation, that kept Clark rasping throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling Much Better, Thank You | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling Much Better, Thank You | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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