Word: blaibergs
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Human Heart." Walter Cronkite questions South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and other heart specialists on the moral and legal implications of transplanting human organs. Surviving heart patients, including Dr. Philip Blaiberg, will appear...
...babies under the chin. At home between constitutionals, he ate so heartily that he put on two pounds last week. It was true that every other day he dropped into the hospital for a checkup, and he was taking about 30 pills a day. But Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, 58, was in far better shape than he had been before he received his heart transplant. The daily bulletins on his condition monotonously reported "excellent progress...
Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital were cautiously reducing the doses of immunosuppressives-his moonfaced appearance was a sign of cortisonism-and they hoped soon to be able to cut down his checkup visits to one a week. Blaiberg was writing a diary for daily newspaper syndication, and his wife Eileen, fresh from a crash course...
Touring French Singer Francoise Hardy signed autographs for the crowd in Johannesburg, but she was only a spectator herself, waiting outside Groote Schuur Hospital for Philip Blaiberg, 58, world's only living heart-transplant patient. With Surgeon Christiaan Barnard looking on from the doorway, and Wife Elaine at his elbow, Blaiberg took his first breath of fresh air after 74 days in germ-free isolation, then walked to a limousine that carried him home. Ahead lay a careful, publicity-free regimen at his apartment in the suburb of Wynberg, with no visitors for a month, no telephone calls...
...Hippocratic oath-that the physician must do everything in his power to save life, to restore health, and at the very least to alleviate suffering. Barnard conceded that in the case of Louis Washkansky he did not save life. But "in the case of Dr. Philip Blaiberg, I can say unhesitatingly that we have alleviated suffering. This man is now up and around, able to shave himself, and to feed himself sitting up-things that he could not do before...