Word: cardiacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollow-Nosed Slugs. With Ethel by his side, Kennedy was taken first to nearby Central Receiving Hospital, where doctors could only keep him alive by cardiac massage and an injection of Adrenalin, and alert the better-equipped Good Samaritan Hospital to prepare for delicate brain surgery. As if there were not already enough grim echoes of Dallas and Parkland Hospital, the scene at Central Receiving was degraded by human perversity. A too-eager news photographer tried to barge in and got knocked to the floor by Bill Barry. A guard attempted to keep both a priest and Ethel away from...
...boasts two faculty members for every student, and it expects its fellows to be more than usually resourceful and independent in their academic work. Oriented primarily to careers in research, the university has no departments as such. Instead, instruction is administered through informal interdisciplinary seminars in fields ranging from cardiac physiology to cellular immunology. Students propose their own course curriculum after an initial six-month period of orientation, move into independent study and research only when they feel ready. Except for a final comprehensive exam, tests are rare-but each fellow must deliver a public lecture on his thesis topic...
...Houston because her husband does not have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...
Lumped loosely in the category of emergency care, such cases claim untold lives each year. But how can such tragedies happen in an age and a nation where severed limbs are restored, kidneys are transplanted, and "dead" hearts are restarted routinely in intensive-cardiac-care wards? Among the causes of the problem are obsolete equipment, understaffed and overcrowded hospitals, administrative ineptitude, poor judgment, and the nearly nation wide absence of an organized approach to the problem. Each of the 6,000 general hospitals in the U.S. should be at least morally bound to accept and treat any emergency case, regardless...
Criticism and caution about heart transplants have been welling up for weeks. So, as Capetown Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard began his second U.S. tour, he tackled the issue headon. Barnard chose the title "Was Human Cardiac Transplantation Premature?" for his presentation to the American College of Cardiology in San Francisco. Emphatically, he said that...