Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential benefits to humanity from the transplantation of organs are so great that they are tempting insufficiently trained surgeons, warns Dr. Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963). For kidney transplants, pioneered at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, of which he is surgeon in chief, Dr. Moore says that skill is needed in four specialties: kidney physiology, the surgery of blood vessels, treatment of urological disease, and the use of potentially poisonous drugs to suppress transplant rejection...
Expertness in any one of these takes years to acquire. Yet Dr. Moore reports in Science that the Brigham is getting a stream of visitors who hope to spend only a few days learning the techniques before returning home to try transplants. Some restraint is needed to protect patients, says Dr. Moore. And the hazards are not limited to such rare operations as transplants. Even so common a procedure as giving a general anesthetic, he says, still carries enough risk to demand practitioners who are both expert and experienced...
...trying to get back into shape," explained Konrad Ulbrich, onetime captain of the Harvard swimming team. "The guys at the bar bet me I couldn't do it," mum bled a red-eyed fellow in pajama bot toms. There was a doctor from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, who talked about the "mental and spiritual uplift" of running to the point of physical collapse. And a college English teacher announced: "I'm a runner, so what am I supposed to do? Enter the Olympics...
...Last week Ecuadorian Sailor Julio Luna, whose grenade-smashed right hand had been replaced by a transplant from a recently dead donor (TIME, March 6), was flown to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. There doctors concluded, "The natural rejection mechanism of the patient had progressed to the point that prolongation of the transplant would jeopardize the health of the patient's whole arm," reluctantly amputated Luna's new hand...
...soon as the operation was finished, Mayo-trained Dr. Gilbert phoned Dr. Richard Wilson of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a pioneer transplant center.* With Wilson's help, a supply of Imuran, an anti-rejection drug, was flown to Guayaquil. Luna was given a dose of X rays to further halt the process by which the human body normally rejects foreign organisms, whatever their origin...