Word: callahan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condition of Patrolman Edward C. Callahan, 36, father of two, was listed as critical even before the famed neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital had fully assessed the damage to his brain. Callahan had been shot in the head while trying to stop a holdup at a suburban Boston supermarket, and his fight for life mounted into agonizing suspense-not only for his family and for the surgeons who were caring for him but for another family and for other surgeons in another hospital on the other side of town...
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...
...deathwatch went on while the M.G.H. surgeons did everything possible to pull Callahan through; they even dropped the temperature of his entire body to decrease his brain's need for oxygen. But he showed no sign of regaining consciousness. On Monday, when all hope had faded, Dr. Russell tackled his most difficult task. He told the wom an who was about to be widowed what his colleagues wanted. Ermalinda Callahan replied without hesitation: "Go ahead if it will help someone else...
...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 alike were disappointed because the liver proved to be diseased or injured. Now, for a third time, Patient Bingel was wheeled into the operating room and prepared for surgery...
Cool Container. At 5:30 p.m. Callahan died. "When we were absolutely sure that life had left him," says Dr. Russell, "Mrs. Callahan signed the release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work...