Word: brigham
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Humane Apology. Surgeon in Chief Francis D. Moore of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (TIME cover, May 2) heard of Callahan's condition, promptly phoned M.G.H. Chief of Surgery Paul Russell. What were the chances of Callahan's recovery? Not good, said Russell realistically. Had the patrolman suffered any injuries besides the head wound? No. Was there any reason to believe that his liver was damaged or diseased? No. Then, with the inevitable apology, Dr. Moore asked Dr. Russell if he would discuss with Callahan's wife, in case her husband should die, the possibility of releasing...
...soon as Dr. Moore got the word, the Brigham team raced into action. The patient was Joseph J. Bingel, 58, a Dorchester construction worker. Brigham surgeons had operated on Bingel in August and found cancer of the liver-a cancer that was too big to be cut out, yet so far as the surgeons could tell, one that had not spread. So Bingel was just the right patient to receive the Brigham's first liver transplant. Twice, before Patrolman Callahan was shot, the Brigham surgeons had thought they had a likely donor, but in each case doctors and patient...
...resourceful doctors at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital knew how tough a problem it is to transplant a human kidney under the most favorable circumstances. They had already done transplants from two men to their identical twins-and each operation was apparently successful. But what would happen to a transplanted kidney if the recipient were a woman and she later became pregnant...
...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...
...case of Edith Helm has proved that a kidney transplanted to an unnatural location can do double duty and also withstand the strains of repeated pregnancies. As the Brigham team headed by Surgeon Joseph Murray reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, this is "gratifying." Beyond the doctors' Yankee reserve, though, is the knowledge that no tougher test of their technique could be devised...