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...next time." Jacqueline Schmeal interviewed surgeons at the University of Texas and Texas Heart Institute and came away marveling at their dedication. Says she: "One doctor I talked to works 18-hour days, then eats and sleeps right inside the hospital." In San Francisco, Dick Thompson watched a triple bypass operation being performed on a longshoreman. His conclusion: "In surgery, the heart seemed no more mysterious than a clock. But later, when I saw the man's family in the waiting room, I remembered that a collection of those little machines-liver, heart, brain and the rest-work together...
...TIME medicine writer since 1978, Anastasia Toufexis has worked on a number of heart-related stories, including the debates over coronary bypass surgery and the role of cholesterol in heart attacks. For this week's cover she went to the University of Utah to learn about the artificial heart being developed there. Says Toufexis: "Most people aren't aware of the advances that cardiovascular science has made in the past few years. If you add up all the bits and pieces, it's startling." Reporter-Researcher Melissa Ludtke Lincoln probably spoke for most TIME readers when...
...injected a radioactive substance into his bloodstream, then took pictures of his heart with a special camera that detects radioactivity. The pictures revealed that his heart was not getting an adequate supply of blood, and further tests showed that the coronary arteries were blocked in several places. Weiner underwent bypass surgery, which eased his discomfort and may have prolonged his life...
Doctors said the pope's intestinal bypass may be closed within a week, but added that surgery on the two bones of his left index finger--fractured in the shooting--was not yet being considered...
Jerusalem's administration is taking great pains to appease the Orthodox. Plans for a new and larger municipal stadium have been scrapped because the best site was near an Orthodox community -and its inhabitants abhor Sabbath soccer. A bypass has been built around the Kiryat Zanz district in the northern part of the city to circumvent a longstanding, almost ritual, conflict: violent clashes that erupt almost every Saturday between secular neighborhood bands and militant vigilantes, who are so strictly Orthodox that they do not allow cars to drive on their streets on the Sabbath...