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...told his surgeon, Dr. William DeVries, who conducted the session on videotape at the University of Utah Medical Center. Instead, it was his lungs, permanently damaged by years of poor circulation, that kept Clark rasping throughout the 2½-minute conversation. The obvious strain on the former Seattle dentist raised one question, but Clark had no doubt about the answer: "It is worth it." He said he would advise other artificial-heart candidates to go ahead with the procedure, "if the alternative is they either die or have it done." He added, "All in all, it has been a pleasure...
...Disney World, are not true robots: they are built to do one routine over and over. The robot-like characters that hang around shopping malls and buttonhole passers-by also are shams, unable to operate without a human remote-controller near by. Industrial robots, which look like giant dentist drills, can be programmed to do extremely complex tasks; they also average $1 million apiece...
...year. "I didn't see the extra year as an advantage when I was choosing schools." But he adds, "I have a strong interest in research, and the strength of the Harvard program is that you get the strong medical background--I didn't want to be a general dentist...
...second year, says that she chose to attend Harvard because she "wanted simply what the program as a whole could offer me." She says that if Harvard had not accepted her, she would have chosen to attend medical school, explaining. "I did not simply want to be a clinical dentist...
Clark's mental progress, however, has not kept pace with his physical recovery. Though often able to converse with family members and doctors, Clark suffers frequent bouts of confusion. One hospital staff member reports that the patient sometimes thinks that he is still a dentist back in Seattle. Though tests have not detected any brain damage, Clark's confusion probably stems from seizures he suffered one week after the implantation of his artificial heart. Utah doctors have conceded that there may have been an imbalance in the supply of fluids, and salts that Clark received. A proper balance...