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...Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor Christopher J. Leland--who, in his capacity as a creative writing teacher, advises students who undertake such literary tasks--says that writing a novel in college was a very positive experience...
...emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis. Tucson Surgeon Jack Copeland, who helped pioneer the use of an artificial heart as a temporary measure, judged the Jarvik-7 "a monstrous thing that does awful things to people." The longer it remains in a patient, he said, "the more likely you're going to have trouble...
Last week, as Cardiac Surgeon Jack Copeland was examining his patient in the sixth-floor intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, he noticed that Drummond was slurring his words. Soon afterward, the patient's right hand became immobile. Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming...
...with a more limited and, to many, a more realistic goal: to use the mechanical device not as a permanent implant but only as a bridge, keeping a seriously ill heart patient alive until a human donor heart can be found. The Food and Drug Administration had authorized Copeland to use the Jarvik-7 for that purpose only a few weeks before, and has since granted permission to a handful of other surgeons. "We're not really doing this in an attempt to further develop the artificial heart, to prove that it's good or bad," explained Copeland...
...candidate for a transplant in August after a rare viral infection irreversibly damaged his heart. Admitted to the Tucson center two weeks ago, he was classified as a "9," which meant he required a transplant within 48 hours. Two days later a heart had still not been found, and Copeland recalls, "he looked like a piece of yellow paste. We felt he was going to die within hours." Unless a donor heart could be found, Drummond's only chance for survival was a temporary Jarvik...